Usually means: Pursue and capture or kill.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hunt, hunt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hunt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hunt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hunt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hunt, hunt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hunt, hunt: Wordnik
  7. hunt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hunt, hunt: Wiktionary
  9. hunt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hunt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hunt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hunt, hunt: Dictionary.com
  13. hunt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hunt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hunt (disambiguation), Hunt (painting), Hunt (surname), Hunt, The Hunt (BBC series), The Hunt (Dexter Gordon album), The Hunt (The Twilight Zone), The Hunt (The Wire), The Hunt (advertisement), The Hunt (band), The Hunt (book), The Hunt (disambiguation), The Hunt (film), The Hunt, The hunt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hunt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hunt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hunt: Rhymezone
  19. hunt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hunt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hunt: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hunt: Free Dictionary
  23. hunt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Hunt, hunt: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Hunt: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. hunt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunt: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. HUNT: Acronym Finder
  3. hunt: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hunt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hunt: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. Hunt: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunt: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See hunted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
verb:  (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
verb:  (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
verb:  (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
verb:  (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
verb:  (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
noun:  The act of hunting.
noun:  A hunting expedition.
noun:  An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
noun:  A pack of hunting dogs.
noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation for a hunter (for game, birds etc).
noun:  (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A placename
noun:  An unincorporated community in Knox County, Ohio, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kerr County, Texas, United States.
noun:  Former name of McFarland, California.
noun:  Ellipsis of Hunt County. [One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Greenville.]

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