Thesaurus: hunt

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1. v. t. To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
2. v. t. To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
3. v. t. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
4. v. t. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
5. v. t. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
6. v. i. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
7. v. i. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
8. n. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
9. n. The game secured in the hunt.
10. n. A pack of hounds.
11. n. An association of huntsmen.
12. n. A district of country hunted over.