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hunts down

hunts down is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 hunts down

What is hunts down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hunts down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hunt down.

Words near hunts down in the dictionary

  1. Huntoons
  2. huntress
  3. huntresses
  4. hunts
  5. hunts and pecks
  6. hunts down
  7. Hunts Grove
  8. hunts out
  9. Hunts Point
  10. hunts the gowk
  11. hunts up

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