| Sounds | hhah'nt | |
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| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910). | |
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| Synonyms | Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt | |
| Instance of | Pre-Raphaelite | A painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals |
| Spanish | Holman Hunt, Hunt, William Holman Hunt | |
| Catalan | William Holman Hunt | |
| Meaning | United States architect (1827-1895). | |
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| Synonym | Richard Morris Hunt | |
| Instance of | architect, designer | someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) |
| Spanish | Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt | |
| Catalan | Richard Morris Hunt | |
| Meaning | British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859). | |
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| Synonyms | Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt | |
| Instance of | writer, author | Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
| Spanish | Leigh Hunt | |
| Catalan | Leigh Hunt | |
| Meaning | An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport. | |
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| Synonym | hunt club | |
| Broader | club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order | A formal association of people with similar interests |
| Spanish | club de caza, grupo de cazadores, hunt club, partida de caza | |
| Catalan | hunt club | |
| Meaning | An instance of searching for something. | |
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| Example | "the hunt for submarines" | |
| Broader | search | The examination of alternative hypotheses |
| Spanish | caza | |
| Verbs | hunt | seek, search for |
| Meaning | The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. | |
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| Synonyms | search, hunting | |
| Narrower | exploration | A careful systematic search |
| foraging, forage | The act of searching for food and provisions / provisions | |
| frisk, frisking | The act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs | |
| looking, looking for | The act of searching / searching visually | |
| manhunt | An organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime) | |
| quest, seeking | The act of searching / searching for something | |
| ransacking, rummage | A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | |
| scouring | Moving over territory to search / search for something | |
| shakedown | A very thorough search of a person or a place | |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
| Spanish | busca, búsqueda, cacheo | |
| Catalan | cerca, recerca | |
| Verbs | hunt | seek, search for |
| Meaning | The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts / pelts. | |
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| Synonym | hunting | |
| Narrower | birdnesting | hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs |
| canned hunt | A hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections | |
| predation | The act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey | |
| stalk, stalking, still hunt | A hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush | |
| Broader | labor, labour, toil | Productive work (especially physical work done for wages) |
| Spanish | cacería, caza, montería | |
| Catalan | caça, cacera | |
| Verbs | hunt | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) |
| hunt | search (an area) for prey | |
| hunt | pursue or chase relentlessly | |
| Meaning | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals). | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | The men hunt the area for animals; The men hunt for animals in the area | |
| Examples |
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| Synonyms | run, hunt down, track down | |
| Narrower | course | hunt with hounds |
| drive | (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | |
| drive | (hunting) search for game | |
| falcon | hunt with falcons | |
| ferret | hunt with ferrets | |
| fowl | hunt fowl in the forest / forest | |
| fowl | hunt fowl | |
| foxhunt | hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs | |
| hawk | hunt with hawks | |
| jacklight, jack | hunt with a jacklight | |
| poach | hunt illegally | |
| rabbit | hunt rabbits | |
| scrounge, forage | Collect or look around for (food) | |
| seal | hunt seals | |
| snipe | hunt or shoot snipe | |
| still-hunt, ambush | hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing | |
| turtle | hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation | |
| whale | hunt for whales | |
| Broader | capture, catch | Capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping |
| Similar to | hunt | search (an area) for prey |
| run | Cause an animal to move fast | |
| Spanish | cazar | |
| Catalan | caçar | |
| Nouns | hunt, hunting | the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts / pelts |
| hunt, hunting | the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | |
| hunter | someone who hunts game | |
| Meaning | pursue or chase relentlessly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "The hunters traced the deer into the woods" | |
| Synonyms | hound, trace | |
| Narrower | ferret | hound or harry relentlessly |
| Broader | chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track | go after with the intent to catch |
| Spanish | cazar, seguir la huella, seguir la pista | |
| Nouns | hunt | the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts / pelts |
| hunt | the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | |
| hunter | someone who hunts game | |
| Meaning | chase away, with as with force. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" | |
| Broader | rout out, drive out, force out, rouse | Force or drive out |
| Meaning | yaw back and forth about a flight path. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Category | airplane, aeroplane, plane | An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets |
| Broader | yaw | deviate erratically from a set course |
| Spanish | dar guiñadas | |
| Meaning | oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency" | |
| Broader | oscillate, vibrate | Move or swing from side to side regularly |
| Meaning | seek, search for. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them" | |
| Broader | search, seek, look for | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of |
| Spanish | buscar, cazar, rastrear | |
| Nouns | hunt, hunting | the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone |
| hunt | an instance of searching for something | |
| hunter | a person who searches / searches / searches for something | |
| Meaning | search (an area) for prey. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "The King used to hunt these forests" | |
| Broader | search, look | Search or seek |
| Similar to | hunt, run, hunt down, track down | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) |
| Nouns | hunt | the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts / pelts |
| hunt, hunting | the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | |
| hunter | someone who hunts game | |
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