hunt down

Questions about hunt down

What does hunt down mean?

hunt down means "pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)".

What is another word for hunt down?

Close synonyms include hunt, run, track down. 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 down a common word?

hunt down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.