HUNT DOWN

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hunt down mean? 

• HUNT DOWN (verb)
  The verb HUNT DOWN has 1 sense:

1. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

  Familiarity information: HUNT DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNT DOWN (verb)

Meaning:

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

hunt; hunt down; track down; run

Context examples:

Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland / The dogs are running deer / The Duke hunted in these woods

Hypernyms (to "hunt down" is one way to...):

capture; catch (capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hunt down"):

snipe (hunt or shoot snipe)

fowl (hunt fowl)

falcon (hunt with falcons)

hawk (hunt with hawks)

jack; jacklight (hunt with a jacklight)

foxhunt (hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs)

course (hunt with hounds)

ferret (hunt with ferrets)

seal (hunt seals)

poach (hunt illegally)

fowl (hunt fowl in the forest)

rabbit (hunt rabbits)

drive (hunting: search for game)

drive (hunting: chase from cover into more open ground)

turtle (hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation)

ambush; still-hunt (hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing)

whale (hunt for whales)

forage; scrounge (collect or look around for (food))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody