hunt

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsrunhunt downtrack down

   Broadercapture

   Narrowersnipewhalestill-huntturtledriverabbitfowlpoachsealferret
2. 2.

   pursue or chase relentlessly

   “The hunters traced the deer into the woods”

   “the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him”

   Synonymshoundtrace

   Broaderchase

   Narrowerferret
3. 3.

   chase away, with as with force

   “They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood”

   Broaderrout out
4. 4.

   yaw back and forth about a flight path

   “the plane's nose yawed”

   Broaderyaw

   airplane

5. 5.

   oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

   “The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency”

   Broaderoscillate
6. 6.

   seek, search for

   “She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them”

   Broadersearch
7. 7.

   search (an area) for prey

   “The King used to hunt these forests”

   Broadersearch

Other forms of hunt

plural

hunts·

past tense

hunted·

present participle

hunting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hunt

What does hunt mean?

hunt means "Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)". That is the primary sense; the word has 15 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hunt?

hunt has 1 syllable: hunt. In IPA it is /ˈhʌnt/.

What is another word for hunt?

Close synonyms include Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hunt a common word?

hunt is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hunt?

1 word rhymes with hunt. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.