hunt

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To chase and kill wild animals for food or sport.

   In the past, people hunted deer in these forests.

2. 2
   verb

   To search carefully for something or someone.

   I hunted everywhere for my reading glasses.

3. 3
   noun

   An act of searching for something.

   The hunt for the missing child lasted three days.

Common collocations

• hunt a killer Verb + noun

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint. In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.

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