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hunt up

hunt up verb: to hunt for; to seek out.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To hunt for; to seek out.
    • She had agreed with Malone's conclusions. She had even hunted up a good deal of evidence of her own.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
    • The House Un-American Activities Committee was hunting up gays right along with Communists back in the early fifties.1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 186

Forms of hunt up

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

Questions about hunt up

What does hunt up mean?
Hunt up means to hunt for; to seek out.
What part of speech is hunt up?
Hunt up is a verb.
What is the past tense of hunt up?
The past tense of hunt up is hunted up.

Words near hunt up in the dictionary

  1. hunt saboteur
  2. hunt saboteurs
  3. hunt seat
  4. hunt the gowk
  5. hunt the slipper
  6. hunt up
  7. hunt where the ducks are
  8. hunt where the ducks were
  9. Hunt's Cross
  10. Hunt's disease
  11. hunt's-up

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