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To pursue (game) for food or sport.
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To search through (an area) for prey: hunted the ridges.
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To make use of (hounds, for example) in pursuing game.
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To pursue intensively so as to capture or kill: hunted down the escaped convict.
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To seek out; search for.
(verb-transitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.