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hunted down

hunted down is the simple past and past participle of hunt down.

Meaning of hunt down

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To hunt something and capture or kill it.
  2. (transitive) To destroy by persecution or violence.
  3. (colloquial, transitive) To find with difficulty.
    • I managed to hunt down a surviving copy of the magazine.

Questions about hunted down

What is hunted down the simple past and past participle of?
Hunted down is the simple past and past participle of hunt down.

Words near hunted down in the dictionary

  1. huntboard
  2. huntboards
  3. Hunte
  4. hunted
  5. hunted and pecked
  6. hunted down
  7. hunted out
  8. hunted the gowk
  9. hunted up
  10. hunted where the ducks are
  11. hunted where the ducks were

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