Hunting Hunt Hunted Hʌnt Whales Animals Verb Lions

• lions sometimes hunt alone.
• whales are still being hunted and killed in the arctic.
• cavemen had to hunt for their food.
• they watched the bald eagles hunting for fish.

hunt

Verb Forms

1. to go after wild animals in order to catch or kill them for food, sport or to make money
• Lions sometimes hunt alone.
• Whales are still being hunted and killed in the Arctic.
• Cavemen had to hunt for their food.
• They watched the bald eagles hunting for fish.
• The animals are hunted for their fur.
• Turtles are illegally hunted for their eggs, meat and shells.

Extra Examples

• Porpoises were still being actively hunted in Greenland.
• The animals come out at night to hunt for mice and other small animals.
• The whales were heavily hunted by British commercial whalers.
• It is now illegal to hunt otters.
2. to look for something that is difficult to find
• She is still hunting for a new job.
• I've hunted everywhere but I can't find it.
• After spending half an hour hunting through the boxes, he had still found nothing.

Extra Examples

• desperately hunting for a new job
• I spent an hour hunting for all the documents.
• She was hunting through her bag for her keys.
3. to look for somebody in order to catch them or harm them
• Police are hunting an escaped criminal.
• Two police forces are still hunting the killer of three-year-old Lucy Black.
• Detectives are hunting for thieves who broke into a warehouse yesterday.
4. (in the UK) to go after and kill foxes as a sport, riding horses and using dogs. Fox hunting with dogs has been illegal in England and Wales since 2005, but people still ride out with dogs following a scent trail, without an actual fox.
• They hunt when they stay with friends in Ireland.

Word Origin

• Old English huntian, of Germanic origin.