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hunting up

hunting up is the present participle and gerund 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 hunting up

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

Words near hunting up in the dictionary

  1. hunting spider
  2. hunting spiders
  3. hunting sword
  4. hunting swords
  5. hunting the gowk
  6. hunting up
  7. hunting where the ducks are
  8. hunting where the ducks were
  9. hunting whip
  10. hunting whips
  11. hunting-crop

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