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HUNT DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
Example:
The Duke hunted in these woods
Synonyms:
hunt; hunt down; run; track down
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "hunt down" is one way to...):
capture; catch (capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping)
Verb group:
hunt (search (an area) for prey)
run (cause an animal to move fast)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hunt down"):
forage; scrounge (collect or look around for (food))
fowl (hunt fowl)
falcon (hunt with falcons)
hawk (hunt with hawks)
jack; jacklight (hunt with a jacklight)
foxhunt (hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs)
course (hunt with hounds)
ferret (hunt with ferrets)
seal (hunt seals)
poach (hunt illegally)
fowl (hunt fowl in the forest)
rabbit (hunt rabbits)
drive ((hunting) search for game)
drive ((hunting) chase from cover into more open ground)
turtle (hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation)
ambush; still-hunt (hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing)
whale (hunt for whales)
snipe (hunt or shoot snipe)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
