| query | If you h___ for something or someone, you try to find them by searching carefully or thoroughly.If you hunt for something or someone, you try to find them by searching carefully or thoroughly. A forensic team was hunting for clues. Some new arrivals lose hope even before they start hunting for a job. Chryssa hunted for Patra, and found her busy at a corner of the site. The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddlers. |
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| word | hunt |
| full-definition | verb If you hunt for something or someone, you try to find them by searching carefully or thoroughly. A forensic team was hunting for clues. Some new arrivals lose hope even before they start hunting for a job. Chryssa hunted for Patra, and found her busy at a corner of the site. The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddlers. If you hunt a criminal or an enemy, you search for them in order to catch or harm them. Detectives have been hunting him for seven months. Her irate husband was hunting him with a gun. Despite a nationwide hunt for the kidnap gang, not a trace of them was found. When people or animals hunt, they chase and kill wild animals for food or as a sport. As a child I learned to hunt and fish. A leopard hunts alone, and an injured leopard cannot hunt. He got up at four and set out on foot to hunt black grouse. He set off for a nineteen-day moose hunt in Nova Scotia. In Britain, when people hunt, they ride horses over fields with dogs called hounds and try to catch and kill foxes, as a sport. She liked to hunt as often as she could. The hunt was held on land owned by the Duke of Marlborough. noun In Britain, a hunt is a group of people who meet regularly to hunt foxes. |
| inflections | huntshuntinghunted |
| cefr-level | B1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1
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