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1. hunt - noun

· Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

Synonym(s): Hunt, Holman_Hunt, William_Holman_Hunt

2. hunt - noun

· United States architect (1827-1895)

Synonym(s): Hunt, Richard_Morris_Hunt

3. hunt - noun

· British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

Synonym(s): Hunt, Leigh_Hunt, James_Henry_Leigh_Hunt

4. hunt - noun

· an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

Synonym(s): hunt_club

Hypernym(s): club, social_club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order

5. hunt - noun

· an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"

Hypernym(s): search

6. hunt - noun

· the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

Synonym(s): search, hunting

Hypernym(s): activity

7. hunt - noun

· the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

Synonym(s): hunting

Hypernym(s): labor, labour, toil

8. hunt - noun

· the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

Synonym(s): hunting

Hypernym(s): outdoor_sport, field_sport, blood_sport

9. hunt - verb

· pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"

Synonym(s): run, hunt_down, track_down

Hypernym(s): capture, catch

10. hunt - verb

· pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

Synonym(s): hound, trace

Hypernym(s): chase, chase_after, trail, tail, tag, give_chase, dog, go_after, track

11. hunt - verb

· chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"

Hypernym(s): rout_out, drive_out, force_out, rouse

12. hunt - verb

· yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"

Hypernym(s): yaw

13. hunt - verb

· oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"

Hypernym(s): oscillate, vibrate

14. hunt - verb

· seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"

Hypernym(s): search, seek, look_for

15. hunt - verb

· search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"

Hypernym(s): search, look

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