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HUNTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reflecting the fear or terror of one who is hunted
Example:
a glitter of apprehension in her hunted eyes
Classified under:
Similar:
afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb hunt
Context examples:
He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Even the Cuban boa is getting harder to observe, because the snakes have been hunted for food and pets.
(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)
In the 1800s, the buffalo were hunted nearly to extinction not only for their valuable hides but also because many U.S. generals, including President Ulysses S. Grant, believed that removing the buffalo would undermine the economies of many of the Native American tribes that depended on them for food and goods and make it easier to push them onto reservations.
(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)
All his childhood and youth had been troubled by a vague unrest; he had never known what he wanted, but he had wanted something that he had hunted vainly for until he met Ruth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Being in no haste, Indian fashion, he hunted his dinner in the course of the day’s travel; and if he failed to find it, like the Indian, he kept on travelling, secure in the knowledge that sooner or later he would come to it.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
She raised her veil as she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Something like tranquillity might now be hoped for; and accordingly, when Rebecca had been prevailed on to carry away the tea-things, and Mrs. Price had walked about the room some time looking for a shirt-sleeve, which Betsey at last hunted out from a drawer in the kitchen, the small party of females were pretty well composed, and the mother having lamented again over the impossibility of getting Sam ready in time, was at leisure to think of her eldest daughter and the friends she had come from.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I do not doubt that he hovers near the spot which I inhabit, and if he has indeed taken refuge in the Alps, he may be hunted like the chamois and destroyed as a beast of prey.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Our boats hunted across the two or three miles of water between them and the point where the Macedonia’s had been dropped, and then headed for home.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Up to then he had hunted by scent, and his movement was slow.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
