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hunt out

hunt out verb: to track down; to find by searching.

Verb

hunt out (third-person singular simple present hunts out, present participle hunting out, simple past and past participle hunted out)

  1. To track down; to find by searching.
    • `Job, time's up, Job; but I never did expect to have to come and hunt you out in this 'ere place, Job'.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of hunt out

third-person singular presenthunts out
present participlehunting out
past participlehunted out
pasthunted out

Questions about hunt out

What does hunt out mean?
Hunt out means to track down; to find by searching.
What part of speech is hunt out?
Hunt out is a verb.
What is the past tense of hunt out?
The past tense of hunt out is hunted out.

Words near hunt out in the dictionary

  1. hunt balls
  2. hunt board
  3. hunt boards
  4. Hunt County
  5. hunt down
  6. hunt out
  7. hunt saboteur
  8. hunt saboteurs
  9. hunt seat
  10. hunt the gowk
  11. hunt the slipper

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