| query | In Britain, when people h___, they ride horses over fields with dogs called hounds and try to catch and kill foxes, as a sport.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. |
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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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