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# hunt

«hunt» in Mova's school dictionary: **to chase and catch or kill wild animals for food or sport** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (hunt, hunts, hunted, hunting); noun (a hunt, hunts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To hunt is to chase and catch or kill wild animals for food or sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#m1)

2) To hunt for something means to search hard for it: hunt for your keys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#m2)

3) A hunt is a search or a chase, like a treasure hunt or an Easter egg hunt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, predators hunt prey: lions hunt zebras, owls hunt mice; the food chain shows who hunts whom. In history, early people hunted and gathered food. In everyday life children go on scavenger hunts and egg hunts. Phrases: hunt for, hunt down, treasure hunt, job hunt, go hunting.

### examples

- Lions hunt in groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#x1)
- Owls hunt at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#x2)
- We had an Easter egg hunt in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#x3)
- I hunted everywhere for my lost shoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#x4)
- Long ago, people hunted deer for meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#x5)
- The class went on a treasure hunt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#x6)
- A cat hunts by waiting very still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#x7)
- The police are hunting for the thief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#x8)
- "The hunt is up!" cried the Prince. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/#x9)

### note

Countable as a noun: a hunt, two hunts. A hunter is the one who hunts; the animal hunted is prey. «Hunt for» means search; «hunt» alone usually means chase animals.

### In the corpora

- [Being glad for someone's success without hunting for a catch is part of being a good neighbour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/19/)
- [The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear tied up on a hunt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/17/)
- [Sharks don't hunt humans; bites are very rare and often a mistake, and people kill around 100 million sharks a year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/9/)
- [Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/0/)
- [Harris's hawks hunt in family groups, which is rare for birds of prey, and they are often trained by falconers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hunt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.