hunt - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• hunt
• hunting

More generic

• blood sport
• field sport
• outdoor sport

More specific

• battue
• beagling
• coursing
• deer hunt
• deer hunting
• duck hunting
• ducking
• fox hunting
• foxhunt
• pigsticking

Noun

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

Synonyms

• hunt
• hunting

More generic

• labor
• labour
• toil

More specific

• birdnesting
• canned hunt
• predation
• stalk
• stalking
• still hunt

Noun

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

Synonyms

• hunt
• hunting
• search

More generic

• activity

More specific

• exploration
• forage
• foraging
• frisk
• frisking
• looking
• looking for
• manhunt
• quest
• ransacking
• rummage
• scouring
• seeking
• shakedown

Noun

an instance of searching for something

Synonyms

• hunt

More generic

• search

Noun

an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

Synonyms

• hunt
• hunt club

More generic

• club
• gild
• guild
• lodge
• order
• social club
• society

Noun

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

Synonyms

• Hunt
• James Henry Leigh Hunt
• Leigh Hunt

Noun

United States architect (1827-1895)

Synonyms

• Hunt
• Richard Morris Hunt

Noun

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

Synonyms

• Holman Hunt
• Hunt
• William Holman Hunt

Verb

pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

Synonyms

• hunt
• hunt down
• run
• track down

More generic

• capture
• catch

More specific

• ambush
• course
• drive
• falcon
• ferret
• forage
• fowl
• foxhunt
• hawk
• jack
• jacklight
• poach
• rabbit
• scrounge
• seal
• snipe
• still-hunt
• turtle
• whale

Related

• hunt
• run

Verb

search (an area) for prey

Synonyms

• hunt

More generic

• look
• search

Related

• hunt
• hunt down
• run
• track down

Verb

seek, search for

Synonyms

• hunt

More generic

• look for
• search
• seek

Verb

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

Synonyms

• hunt

More generic

• oscillate
• vibrate

Verb

pursue or chase relentlessly

Synonyms

• hound
• hunt
• trace

More generic

• chase
• chase after
• dog
• give chase
• go after
• tag
• tail
• track
• trail

More specific

• ferret

Verb

yaw back and forth about a flight path

Synonyms

• hunt

More generic

• yaw

Verb

chase away, with as with force

Synonyms

• hunt

More generic

• drive out
• force out
• rouse
• rout out

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