hunt

IPA: hˈʌnt

The act of hunting.
A hunting expedition.
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
A pack of hunting dogs.
An English surname originating as an occupation for a hunter (for game, birds etc).
(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
A placename
An unincorporated community in Knox County, Ohio, United States.
An unincorporated community in Kerr County, Texas, United States.
Former name of McFarland, California.
Ellipsis of Hunt County. [One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Greenville.]

(transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
(transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
(bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
(bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
(engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Examples of "hunt" in Sentences

The events are the animal hunts.
He is killed while hunting the boar.
There was a witch hunt in the villiage.
They are hunted by the lion and the cheetah.
Primitive people used to hunt animals for living.
But the hunt goes awry and all the crew members are killed.
It is hunted during the night with a torch, which dazzles the animal.
Hunting supplemented the practice of animal husbandry of domestic livestock.
In early summer, Marta left the den to hunt but was killed by another poacher.
The police officers were killed last Saturday while on a mission to hunt cattle rustlers in Suguta Valley.