(v. t.) To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
(v. t.) To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
(v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
(v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
(v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
(v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
(v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
(n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
(n.) The game secured in the hunt.
(n.) A pack of hounds.
(n.) An association of huntsmen.
(n.) A district of country hunted over.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(3) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(4) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(5) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(6) Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said people would see through her attempts to distance herself from Gove.
(7) A spokesman for Hunt told Guardian Australia: "We have been deeply respectful of the process and will continue to be so."
(8) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(9) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(10) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(11) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(12) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(13) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(14) A further 19 hospitals are to be investigated over their links to allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile , the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has said.
(15) It will be only a matter of time before the body-count begins.” Jeremy Hunt says five-day doctors' strike will be 'worst in NHS history' Read more The BMA says it will call off the strikes if the government abandons imposing a tougher new contract in October, but the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt , was in a no-turning-back mood on the BBC’s Today programme this morning.
(16) Hunt, however, responded to the move on Sunday morning by describing it as opportunism.
(17) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
(18) When Jeremy Hunt says the NHS is coping, he needs to really look at what is happening.
(19) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
(20) He calmly and politely volunteered: “Sir, I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me.” Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile.
Warrener
Definition:
(n.) The keeper of a warren.
Example Sentences:
(1) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
(2) They head a list of casualties at the top echelons of the financial industry including UBS's ousted chief executive Peter Wuffli and Bear Stearns's former chief operating officer Warren Spector.
(3) It appeared Dunaway and Warren Beatty had an envelope containing a card naming a previous award won by La La Land, prompting visible hesitation between the two veteran actors before Dunaway went ahead and named La La Land.
(4) So, all of her recent press- and liberal-friendly broadsides against Wall Street aside, Warren says she is still “not running for president” .
(5) Operations are ongoing,” a Pentagon spokesman, army colonel Steve Warren, confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.
(6) The details of the restrictions Warren will face on release from Belmarsh maximum security prison are still to be determined.
(7) Linton, Drapanas and Warren shunts have a higher recurrence rate, but seem more appropriate for liver transplantation candidates.
(8) Zawahiri said: "I tell the captive soldiers of al-Qaida and the Taliban and our female prisoners held in the prisons of the crusaders and their collaborators, we have not forgotten you and in order to free you we have taken hostage the Jewish American Warren Weinstein."
(9) Moonlight wins best picture Oscar, after Warren Beatty gives gong to La La Land Read more “Peak blackness is a rare metaphysical anomaly that can only occur when an amalgam of black excellence comes together at the same societal intersection,” he said.
(10) The first fanciful bit of the Biden 4 Prez story came out this past weekend, when the veep sat down with Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for a two-hour meeting .
(11) The distal splenorenal shunt described by Warren and portacaval anastomosis clearly prevail over all other shunts.
(12) We're working hard to authenticate this latest report, but we reiterate our call that Warren Weinstein be released and returned to his family,” said spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
(13) Just six of them – Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Al Franken, Joe Manchin, Claire McCaskill and Vermont independent Bernie Sanders – voted against the procedural cloture motion that ended debate on the bill, though a total of 22 Democrats were against final passage.
(14) Insertion of a stainless steel stent (Wallstent, Schneider, Zürich or Palmaz-Schatz, Johnson and Johnson, Warren, NJ) resulted in further minor increases (less than or equal to 8% in the calculated minimal luminal cross-sectional area, except in the smaller phantom filled with 50% contrast medium.
(15) Photograph: Mike Bowers 5.48am BST National leader Warren Truss would like to know if the Prime Minister will apologise for banning live exports when she's in Jakarta.
(16) Warren is specifically afraid that if it is passed, a future president could use the TPP to change regulations like Dodd-Frank that are meant to safeguard US investors.
(17) Warren Buffett has sparked fresh speculation over his succession by hiring a 39-year-old investment manager to run a significant part of his empire.
(18) That makes green deal rates uncompetitive, according to Ben Warren of Ernst & Young.
(19) Clinton wrote the magazine’s piece about Warren , who was named among the “leaders” in the list published on Thursday.
(20) The Centre for Policy Studies, a centre-right thinktank, said there was a huge difference between generosity, as practised by Warren Buffett, and compulsory taxation.