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hunting out

hunting out is the present participle and gerund of hunt out.

Meaning of hunt out

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

Questions about hunting out

What is hunting out the present participle and gerund of?
Hunting out is the present participle and gerund of hunt out.

Words near hunting out in the dictionary

  1. hunting knives
  2. hunting leopard
  3. hunting leopards
  4. hunting lodge
  5. hunting lodges
  6. hunting out
  7. hunting parson
  8. hunting pink
  9. hunting pinks
  10. hunting pressure
  11. hunting reaction

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