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Noun hunting has 3 senses

hunt, hunting - the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
--₁ is a kind of outdoor sport, field sport; blood sport
--₁ has particulars:
battue; beagling; coursing; deer hunting, deer hunt; ducking, duck hunting; fox hunting, foxhunt; pigsticking

Derived forms: verb hunt₇, verb hunt₁
search, hunt, hunting - the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
--₂ is a kind of activity
--₂ has particulars:
exploration; foraging, forage; frisk, frisking; looking, looking for; manhunt; quest, seeking; ransacking, rummage; scouring; shakedown

Derived form: verb hunt₆
hunt, hunting - the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
--₃ is a kind of labor, labour, toil
--₃ has particulars:
canned hunt; stalk, stalking, still hunt; birdnesting; predation

Derived form: verb hunt₁

Verb hunt has 7 senses

hunt, run, hunt down, track down - 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"
--₁ is one way to capture, catch

Derived forms: noun hunt₈, noun hunt₇, noun hunter₁, noun hunting₁, noun hunting₃
Sample sentences:
The men hunt the area for animals
The men hunt for animals in the area
hound, hunt, trace - pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him"
--₂ is one way to chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track

Derived forms: noun hunt₈, noun hunt₇, noun hunter₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
hunt - chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
--₃ is one way to rout out, drive out, force out, rouse
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
hunt - yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"
--₄ is one way to yaw
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
hunt - oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
--₅ is one way to oscillate, vibrate
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
hunt - seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
--₆ is one way to search, seek, look for

Derived forms: noun hunt₅, noun hunt₆, noun hunter₂, noun hunting₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
hunt - search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"
--₇ is one way to search, look

Derived forms: noun hunt₈, noun hunt₇, noun hunter₁, noun hunting₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something