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hunt has 13 distinct synonyms spread across 9 of its 15 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
an instance of searching for something
“the hunt for submarines”
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
“Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for hunt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
chase away, with as with force
“They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood”
yaw back and forth about a flight path
“the plane's nose yawed”
oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
“The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency”
seek, search for
“She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them”
search (an area) for prey
“The King used to hunt these forests”