to hunt
- verb
- /hʌnt/
- Viewers may interact with a software agent that hunts out investments based on the viewers' preferences.
Most of us carry all of our stress or we hunt out appropriate ways to release when we can.
- Most of us carry all of our stress or we hunt out appropriate ways to release when we can.
- And they, like, hunt down people who have bounds.
- Is it of course I've been hunting or something, right.
Examples
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Remove your ego and go hunt them out and learn from them.
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You should be out in the streets hunting for him or them.
Fiction book (1990) -
OK, So what we have here, let me just hunt this down.
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But as in any other crime, it is important to be able to hunt down and secure evidence.
Academic text (2002) -
What are you hunting for up here?
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To collect unemployment, you have to go out and hunt for employment.
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By then, the class had a firm grasp of what we were hunting for.
Academic text (2002) -
Well, you'll have to hunt far and wide to find her now.
Fiction book (1993) -
The job market is pretty tight in New York, but after hunting around for a while, I fiinally landed a position in the education department at the Museum of Natural History.
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He decided to hunt for the missing keys under the couch.
Synonyms
To try to find someone or something
To try to find something or someone
To try to find something or someone by looking carefully
Try to find or get something you want
To try to get something you want, like a job or a goal
To search for someone or something until you find them
Search for and find someone or something after a lot of effort
Look for and find a person or thing, often with effort
To go ahead and explore a place to find something or information
To search a place very carefully to find something
To search for something that is hard to find
To search a place carefully to find someone or something
Search carefully to find hidden facts or details
To move quietly and carefully while looking for animals to catch
To find hidden facts or things by careful searching
To search carefully for a long time to find hidden information
To search carefully to find hidden facts or documents
To feel with your hands to find something in the dark
To search for something with strong determination
To search carefully through a large area or collection
To look around or think hard to find something you need
To search everywhere for something that is lost
To search carefully through things in a small place like a bag or box
To search through a place or container in a messy way
To find something after a careful search
Find something after searching carefully
To look for animals to hunt and eat
To go looking for something difficult to find or get
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To try to reach a very difficult or impossible goal for a long time
To support two opposite sides at the same time
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Literature
A campaign to unfairly find and punish people for their beliefs or actions
A strong feeling of excitement when you search for something or try to get it
- Jargon
A way of hunting where the hunter moves very quietly or waits in one spot to surprise animals
- Specialized
A rare illness from a virus that causes facial paralysis, ear pain, dizziness and sometimes hearing loss
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Etymology
To hunt for something grew from the basic idea 'to chase', so we say someone 'hunts' through drawers or rooms when they look carefully for a lost thing.