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hunted up

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

Meaning of hunt up

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

Questions about hunted up

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

Words near hunted up in the dictionary

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

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