| VERB | competition | track down, hunt, run, hunt down | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) |
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| Meaning | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals). | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | hunt, run, hunt 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 | |
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