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Hunting

noun

The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport. Synonym: hunt.

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. Synonyms: hunt, search.

The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts. Synonym: hunt.

Hunt

verb

(past & past part. hunted; pres. part. hunting)

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals). Synonyms: hunt down, run, track down. "The dogs are running deer" , "The Duke hunted in these woods"

Pursue or chase relentlessly. Synonyms: hound, trace. "The detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

Chase away, with as with force.

Yaw back and forth about a flight path.

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent.

Seek, search for.

Search (an area) for prey.

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"Hunting" Quotes from Famous Books

... All that was open to me was to press toward the edge of the wreck-pack, for there alone could I hope to find what I was after—and there it pretty certainly would be. But after my miserable experience of the preceding day it was plain that before I started on my hunting expedition I must hit upon some way of laying a course and holding it; or else, most likely, go rambling from wreck to wreck until I grew so weak from starvation that on one or another of them I should fall down ...

— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier

... deals with two active boys in Aroostook County close to the northeastern boundary of our country, and where smuggling across the Canadian line has been prevalent. Equally ready in athletics, hunting, or helping their families on the rich farms of that section, these good chums have many exciting adventures, the most important of which directly concerns the leading smugglers of the district, and an important public service is ...

— Breaking Away - or The Fortunes of a Student • Oliver Optic

... met in a little glen in the midst of a cluster of mahogany trees. How they would have liked to see the finish of this battle royal! Indeed, they would have enjoyed nothing better than to land in some favored spot and do a little big-game hunting with their rifles! ...

— Around the World in Ten Days • Chelsea Curtis Fraser

... go far before they found the very place they were hunting for, a long, narrow, scantily grassed point that penetrated through the marsh far out ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... which had hitherto so materially assisted in supplying his wants, could no longer be followed; and although Walter had grown tall and strong, he was not experienced enough to take his father's place. In addition to this, Hirzel had expressly forbidden his boy to have anything more to do with hunting, which sooner or later would be sure to lead to a violent and dreadful death; and in order to remove temptation as much as possible from him, he sold his gun to one of ...

— Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

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