American English pronunciation
How to pronounce hunting
IPA transcription: ['hʌntɪŋ]
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Noun
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the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
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the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
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the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
Verb
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pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
“Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland”
“The dogs are running deer”
“The Duke hunted in these woods”
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pursue or chase relentlessly
“The hunters traced the deer into the woods”
“the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him”
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chase away, with as with force
“They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood”
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yaw back and forth about a flight path
“the plane's nose yawed”
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oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
“The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency”
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seek, search for
“She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them”
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search (an area) for prey
“The King used to hunt these forests”
Usage examples
- Subsistence hunting and fishing are the major economic activities.
- Collections of hunting weapons, Gothic paintings and books are stored there.
- The most popular activities for tourists are hunting and fishing.
- Huntington locomotive began running along the edge of the gorge near the bridge.
- Hunting, however is allowed forest-wide including wilderness areas.
- The Maharaja of Rewa still retained the hunting rights.
- War, hunting, and love bring a thousand pain for one pleasure.
- I think it's about bird hunting, but now I can see how that might be misinterpreted.
- Today, Teller is an Inupiat village that depends on subsistence hunting and fishing.
- The southerly extension to Huntington Beach remains unconstructed.