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hunt down en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

hunt + down

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To hunt something and capture or kill it.
  2. (transitive) To destroy by persecution or violence.
  3. (colloquial, transitive) To find with difficulty.
    • I managed to hunt down a surviving copy of the magazine.
    • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hunted down Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hunted down Tense=Past lexicographic
hunts down Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hunting down Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Translations (7)

it dare la caccia (find with difficulty) · pl upolować (find with difficulty) · la consector (hunt something and capture it) · tr avlamak (hunt something and capture it) · it dare la caccia (hunt something and capture it) · pl upolować (hunt something and capture it) · hu levadászik (hunt something and capture it)