hunt
verb [I or T] (SEARCH) /hʌnt/Definition
B2 to try to find something or someone: I've hunted all over the place, but I can't find that book. They are still hunting for the missing child. I've hunted high and low (= looked everywhere) for my gloves. Police are hunting the terrorists who planted the bomb. I'll try and hunt out (= find) those old photographs for you. They have spent months house-/job-hunting (= looking for a house/a job).Searching
(Definition of hunt verb (SEARCH) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber noun
- bounty hunter noun
- burrow verb
- cast around/about phrasal verb
- dig verb (SEARCH)
- divine verb (SEARCH)
- look sth out phrasal verb
- manhunt noun
- nose verb (SEARCH)
- once-over noun (LOOKING)
- poke around phrasal verb
- quest noun
- scout noun (SEARCH)
- scout verb
- shake sb/somewhere down phrasal verb
- shakedown noun (SEARCH)
- strip search noun
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
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