Hunt Down

Definition: Hunt Down

Hunt Down

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hunt Down

Inquiry

Look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; search out, hunt down, hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned.

Malevolence

Molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use.

D'Artagnan, you will hunt down Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, and bring me their heads, or I will have yours. (The Man in the Iron Mask; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

You will hunt down Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, and bring me back their heads, or I will have yours. (The Man in the Iron Mask; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Hunt Down the Prize (reference)

• Missing Persons U. S. A.: How to Hunt Down and Find Anyone, Anywhere (reference)

• The hunt down under (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), s'i ndahem gjahut, nxjerr nga strofulla, gjej (ascertain, assure, be, be present, catch, come across, dig up, discover, distil, distill, divine, fetch, figure out, find, find out, get, guess, hit, hunt out, hunt up, look out, meet with, obtain, pick out, procure, root out, scare up, search out, trace). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تصيد الأخطاء, ‏أسكت (gag, hush, put down, shush, silence, smack of, still). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хващам (capture, catch, clamp, find out, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hook, land, nail, nip, nobble, pick up, pot, prey upon, run down, seize, snag, strike, take, take effect, take up, track down), тормозя (badger, bait, bedevil, bully, chivy, excruciate, fret, harass, jade, murder, persecute, pester, pick on, plague, play up, prey, push, put upon, rack, rag, ride, scourge, worry), преследвам докато хвана, преследвам (bait, chase, chivy, drive, drive at, haunt, lay siege to, martyr, obsess, persecute, prosecute, pursue, push, run, siege, tag). (various references)

Czech

uštvat (hound down, overrun, wind), dopadnout (apprehend, capture, go over, hound down, land, pitch, receive, seize, strike). (various references)

French

traquer, pourchasser, forcer (hustle), dénicher. (various references)

German

zur strecke bringen (bring down, hound down, track), nachspüren (follow, go into, look into, to trace, track), jagd machen auf, erjagen (bag, get hold of). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללכו�" (capture, catch, entrap, hook, track down, trap), לר�"וף (be after someone, chase, dog, give chase, go after, haunt, hound, persecute, pursue). (various references)

Hungarian

kézre kerít (to hunt down), bekerít (encompass, fence in, mure, surround, to circumvent, to close in, to encircle, to enclose, to encompass, to fence, to fence in, to gird, to hedge in, to hem in, to hunt down, to lay down, to rail), becserkel. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

狩り立てる (to hunt down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かりたてる (to hunt down, to spur on). (various references)

Pig Latin

unthay ownday

Portuguese

perseguir (chase, course, follow, get after, lay hold, obsess, persecute, prosecute, pursue, run, stalk). (various references)

Romanian

prinde pe cineva la strâmtoare. (various references)

Russian 

выследить (smell out, trace), затравить, поймать (capture, catch, catch hold of, caught 2, land, lime, nab, nail, pin down, snaffle bit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uterati (blow in, drive into), saterati, ići po tragu (spoor). (various references)

Spanish

perseguir y capturar, perseguir (chase, chivvy, dog, dragoon, follow, follow up, get after, go after, gun for, harass, haunt, hound, Hunt, importune, lock on, obsess, persecute, prosecute, pursue, set after, trace, tracking), buscar hasta dar con. (various references)

Swedish

infånga, gripa (apprehend, bite, capture, catch, claw, collar, embrace, lay hold of, seize, snap up, take, touch), övermanna (overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm). (various references)

Turkish

peşine düşmek (chase, go in search of, pursue), ele geçirmek (capture, conquer, corner, embrace, get, get hold of, invade, lay hold of, pinch, possess oneself of, seize, take, take possession of, win). (various references)

Ukrainian

спіймати (capture, catch, cop, get, nobble, recapture, seize, snaffle), вистежити. (various references)

persequor. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: donut, hound, unwon, wound.

-4 letters: dhow, doth, down, dunt, hunt, noun, nowt, thou, thud, town, undo, unto, wont.

-5 letters: don, dot, dow, duh, dun, duo, hod, hon, hot, how, hun, hut, nod, noh, not, now, nth, nun, nut, oud, out, own, tho, tod, ton, tow, tun, two, udo, who, won, wot, wud.

+1 letter: whodunnit.

+2 letters: whodunnits.