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Hunt down has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

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"

2

To hunt something and capture or kill it.

Example Sentences
"Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland" verb
"The dogs are running deer" verb
"The Duke hunted in these woods" verb
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
capture
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
snipe whale still-hunt turtle drive rabbit fowl poach seal ferret course foxhunt jacklight hawk falcon scrounge
Rhyming Words
own sown town lown mown gown rown down adown known grown frown shown brown sdown coown blown clown crown drown
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