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Definition of Hunting
1. Noun. The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport.
Generic synonyms: Field Sport, Outdoor Sport, Blood Sport
Specialized synonyms: Battue, Beagling, Coursing, Deer Hunt, Deer Hunting, Duck Hunting, Ducking, Fox Hunting, Foxhunt, Pigsticking
Examples of category: Bag, Batfowl, Ensnare, Entrap, Snare, Trammel, Trap, Gin
Derivative terms: Hunt, Hunt, Hunt, Hunt, Hunt
2. Noun. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
Generic synonyms: Activity
Specialized synonyms: Exploration, Forage, Foraging, Frisk, Frisking, Looking, Looking For, Manhunt, Quest, Seeking, Ransacking, Rummage, Scouring, Shakedown
Derivative terms: Hunt, Hunt, Search, Search
3. Noun. The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts.
Specialized synonyms: Canned Hunt, Stalk, Stalking, Still Hunt, Birdnesting, Predation
Generic synonyms: Labor, Labour, Toil
Derivative terms: Hunt, Hunt, Hunt, Hunt
Definition of Hunting
1. n. The pursuit of game or of wild animals.
Definition of Hunting
1. Noun. Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food. ¹
2. Noun. Looking for something, especially for a job or flat. ¹
3. Noun. (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing. ¹
4. Verb. (present participle of hunt) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hunting
1. an instance of searching [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hunting
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The pursuit of game or of wild animals. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below).