Definition of hunt

"hunt" in the noun sense

1. Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

2. Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt

United States architect (1827-1895)

3. Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt

British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

4. hunt, hunt club

an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

5. hunt

an instance of searching for something

"the hunt for submarines"

6. search, hunt, hunting

the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

7. hunt, hunting

the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

8. hunt, hunting

the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

"hunt" in the verb sense

1. hunt, run, hunt down, track down

pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals

"Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"

"The dogs are running deer"

"The Duke hunted in these woods"

2. hound, hunt, trace

pursue or chase relentlessly

"The hunters traced the deer into the woods"

"the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

3. hunt

chase away, with as with force

"They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"

4. hunt

yaw back and forth about a flight path

"the plane's nose yawed"

5. hunt

oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

"The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"

6. hunt

seek, search for

"She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"

7. hunt

search (an area) for prey

"The King used to hunt these forests"

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Quotations for hunt

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. [ Wordsworth ]

To sanction vice and hunt decornm down. [ Byron ]

Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and space,
Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark
To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark. [ William Cowper ]

Dogs that hunt foulest hit off most faults. [ Proverb ]

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives.
Live registered upon our brazen tombs. [ William Shakespeare ]

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]

If you are wise, and prize your peace of mind,
Believe me true, nor listen to your Jealousy,
Let not that devil which undoes your sex,
That cursed curiosity seduce you
To hunt for needless secrets, which, neglected,
Shall never hurt your quiet, but once known
Shall sit upon your heart, pinch it with pain,
And banish sweet sleep forever from you. [ Rowe ]

The little dogs hunt out the hare, but the big ones catch it. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that would have a hare for his breakfast must hunt over night. [ Proverb ]

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Never hunt trouble. However dead a shot one may be, the gun he carries on such expeditions is sure to kick, or go off half-cocked. [ Artemus Ward ]

A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. [ Frederick the Great ]

The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. [ Hiram Powers ]

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]

hunt in Scrabble®

The word hunt is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters hunt:

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hunt in Words With Friends™

The word hunt is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of hunt

2 letter words in hunt (3 words)

3 letter words in hunt (2 words)

4 letter words in hunt (1 word)

hunt + 1 blank (4 words)

Word Growth involving hunt

Shorter words in hunt

un

Longer words containing hunt

bowhunt bowhunted

bowhunt bowhunter bowhunters

bowhunt bowhunting bowhuntings

bowhunt bowhunts

foxhunt foxhunted

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foxhunt foxhunting foxhuntings

foxhunt foxhunts

headhunt headhunted

headhunt headhunter headhunters

headhunt headhunting

headhunt headhunts

huntable

hunted bowhunted

hunted foxhunted

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hunter bookhunter bookhunters

hunter bowhunter bowhunters

hunter fortunehunter fortunehunters

hunter foxhunter foxhunters

hunter ghosthunter ghosthunters

hunter headhunter headhunters

hunter huntergatherer huntergatherers

hunter hunters bookhunters

hunter hunters bowhunters

hunter hunters fortunehunters

hunter hunters foxhunters

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hunter hunters headhunters

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hunter hunters minehunters

hunter hunters molehunters

hunter hunters nonhunters

hunter hunters pothunters

hunter hunters shunters

hunter jobhunter jobhunters

hunter minehunter minehunters

hunter molehunter molehunters

hunter nonhunter nonhunters

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hunter shunter shunters

hunting bowhunting bowhuntings

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huntress huntressed

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hunts bowhunts

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hunts huntsman huntsmanship

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hunts huntswoman

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jobhunt jobhunter jobhunters

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molehunt molehunter molehunters

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outhunt outhunted

outhunt outhunting

outhunt outhunts

overhunt overhunted

overhunt overhunting

overhunt overhunts

shunt shunted

shunt shunter shunters

shunt shunting

shunt shunts

witchhunt witchhunts