Definition of hunt

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• hunt is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
• hunt is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
• hunt is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8

Definition of hunt

• an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. hunt club
• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. hunting
  2. search
• United States architect (1827-1895) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. richard morris hunt
• the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. hunting
• pursue or chase relentlessly (verb)

  Examples

  1. The hunters traced the deer into the woods

  Synonyms

  1. hound
  2. trace
• British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. james henry leigh hunt
  2. leigh hunt
• the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. hunting
• Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. holman hunt
  2. william holman hunt
• pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) (verb)

  Examples

  1. Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
  2. The Duke hunted in these woods

  Synonyms

  1. hunt down
  2. run
  3. track down
• an instance of searching for something (noun)

  Examples

  1. the hunt for submarines
• chase away, with as with force (verb)

  Examples

  1. They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood
• oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent (verb)

  Examples

  1. The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency
• search (an area) for prey (verb)

  Examples

  1. The King used to hunt these forests
• seek, search for (verb)

  Examples

  1. She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them
• yaw back and forth about a flight path (verb)

See definition of hunt in Merriam Webster