Definition of hunting

"hunting" in the noun sense

1. hunt, hunting

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

2. search, hunt, hunting

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

3. hunt, hunting

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

"hunting" 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 hunting

To go a cricket hunting. [ Proverb ]

Hunting has as much pain as pleasure. [ Proverb ]

Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began,
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. [ Pope ]

You cannot make a hunting-horn of a fox's-tail. [ Proverb ]

It is a good hunting-bout that fills the belly. [ Proverb ]

The man that once did sell the lion's skin
While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. [ William Shakespeare ]

Our ancestors grew not great by hawking and hunting. [ Proverb ]

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man. [ Addison ]

War, hunting, and love, have a thousand troubles for their pleasure. [ Proverb ]

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefs prove. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Coquettes are like hunters who are fond of hunting, but do not eat the game.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The London season is entirely matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands or hiding from them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

It is very strange and very melancholy that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us to call hunting one of them. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness - when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton. [ H. W. Shaw ]

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 ]

Hunting is a relic of the barbarous spirit that thirsted formerly for human blood, but is now content with the blood of birds and animals. [ Bovee ]

Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it. Will not the price of beaver rise? [ Carlyle ]

You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong. [ Bob Hagel ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

hunting in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters hunting:

HUNTING
(95 = 45 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

hunting

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word hunting

HUNTING
(95 = 45 + 50)
HUNTING
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HUNTING
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HUNTING
(62 = 12 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In hunting

HUNTING
(95 = 45 + 50)
HUNTING
(94 = 44 + 50)
HUNTING
(89 = 39 + 50)
HUNTING
(86 = 36 + 50)
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hunting in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters hunting:

HUNTING
(107 = 72 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

hunting

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word hunting

HUNTING
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HUNTING
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HUNTING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In hunting

HUNTING
(107 = 72 + 35)
HUNTING
(101 = 66 + 35)
HUNTING
(95 = 60 + 35)
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Words within the letters of hunting

2 letter words in hunting (6 words)

3 letter words in hunting (14 words)

4 letter words in hunting (8 words)

5 letter words in hunting (3 words)

6 letter words in hunting (1 word)

7 letter words in hunting (1 word)

hunting + 1 blank (5 words)

hunting + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence hunting

Words that start with hunting (1 word)

Words with hunting in them (3 words)

Word Growth involving hunting

Shorter words in hunting

un hunt

in tin ting

Longer words containing hunting

bowhunting bowhuntings

duckhunting

foxhunting foxhuntings

ghosthunting

headhunting

househunting

jobhunting

nonhunting

outhunting

overhunting

shunting