hunt out
1hunt out — ● hunt * * * hunt out [phrasal verb] hunt (something) out or hunt out (something) : to find (something) after searching for it It took a while to hunt out the papers, but we finally found everything we needed …
2hunt out — index trace (follow) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3hunt out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms hunt out : present tense I/you/we/they hunt out he/she/it hunts out present participle hunting out past tense hunted out past participle hunted out 1) to look for and kill a type of animal until there are no… …
4hunt out — PHRASAL VERB If you hunt out something that is hidden or difficult to find, you search for it and eventually find it. [V P n (not pron)] I ll try and hunt out the information you need... [V P n (not pron)] American consumers are accustomed to… …
5hunt out — Search for. See hunt for …
6hunt out — drive away, expel …
7Hunt — (h[u^]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hunting}.] [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin?an (in comp.) to seize. [root]36. Cf. {Hent}.] 1. To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; …
8hunt — Synonyms and related words: angle for, ask for, beat, beat about for, beat the bushes, beset, burrow, capture, cast about, chase, chase out, check out, chevy, chivy, course, coursing, cynegetics, delve, delve for, dig, dig for, dog, domiciliary… …
9hunt — hunt1 [hʌnt] v [: Old English; Origin: huntian] 1.) [I and T] to chase animals and birds in order to kill or catch them ▪ the slopes where I hunted deer as a kid ▪ Wolves tend to hunt in packs (=hunt in groups) . 2.) to look for someone or… …
10hunt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. chase, drag; pursuit, search. v. t. chase, stalk, follow, trace, pursue, run, trail, hound. v. i. shoot, poach, trap, snare, hawk, ferret. See inquiry. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The pursuit of game] Syn …
