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What is the verb for hunt?

What's the verb for hunt? Here's the word you're looking for.

hunt
  1. (transitive) To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
  2. (transitive) To try to find something; search (for).
  3. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
  4. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
  5. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
  6. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
  7. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
  8. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “It took much effort on their part to hunt animals for food.”
      “I decided to hunt for ideas and design patterns on the Internet.”
hunted
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hunteth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of hunt
huntest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of hunt
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