| 单词 | to hunt down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hunt down Phrases P1. to hunt down. a. To chase (an animal) until caught or killed; to run to earth, to bring to bay; figurative to pursue and overcome or destroy; also, to pursue until one gets possession or mastery of. (See also 7.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > hunt down or bring to bay stallc1400 to set up1608 to run down1650 to hunt down1711 to tire down1835 to stick up1850 bail1872 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 125. ¶8 We should then single every Criminal out of the Herd, and hunt him down. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 291 Errors, popular or not, are lawful game, and free to every one to hunt down. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 217 Refusing to spy out and hunt down little congregations of Nonconformists. 1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith iv. 150 Let us..try to hunt down this fugitive question. b. New Zealand. (See quot. 1933.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > herd > drive down from hills to hunt down1933 1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 17/7 Hunt down, to hunt the sheep off the higher parts of their winter country on to lower, safer spurs when snow is expected; e.g., ‘We hunted down every day for a week, but no snow came.’ 1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 85 I want you blokes to go round to the Snow Hut and hunt the sheep down into the valley from the open spur. P2. to hunt out: to expel or drive from cover or shelter by hunting or persistent search; to track out; to arrive at or discover by investigation. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > find out by investigation [verb (transitive)] seekc900 seeOE searcha1382 takea1382 inquire1390 undergrope?a1412 explore1531 to pry out1548 to scan out1548 to hunt out1576 sound1596 exquire1607 pervestigate1610 pump1611 trace1642 probe1649 to hunt up1741 to pick a person's brains (also brain)1770 verify1801 to get a load of1929 sus1966 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > from seclusion or shelter disharbour1566 to hunt out1576 unlodge1598 unnestle1598 unkennel1604 uncloister1611 unnest1683 discloister1881 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > by searching or tracking down > and bring to light to search outc1425 to hunt out1576 unrip?1576 to ferret out1577 to fetch up1608 fish1632 prog1655 rummage1797 rout1814 exhume1819 excavate1840 ferret up1847 unearth1863 fossick?1870 exhumate1881 1576 A. Fleming tr. P. Vatinius in Panoplie Epist. 128 Except he hath taken flight into Dalmatia, from whence (notwithstanding he lurk for a season) we intend to hunt him out. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 29 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Not certainely affirming any thing, but by conferring of times, language, monuments, and such like, I doe hunt out a probability. 1733 Ess. Hunting 37 Or Spaniel, which will hunt out their Masters, or their Master's Horse, distinctly from all others. 1881 J. Taylor Sc. Covenanters (Cassell) 128 To assist the soldiers in hunting out and butchering the hapless fugitives. P3. to hunt up: to prosecute the search for, until one finds; to pursue with eager investigation; to ‘look up’ (what is not found without energetic search). (See also sense 7.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > find out by investigation [verb (transitive)] seekc900 seeOE searcha1382 takea1382 inquire1390 undergrope?a1412 explore1531 to pry out1548 to scan out1548 to hunt out1576 sound1596 exquire1607 pervestigate1610 pump1611 trace1642 probe1649 to hunt up1741 to pick a person's brains (also brain)1770 verify1801 to get a load of1929 sus1966 1741 Coll. S. Carolina Hist. Soc. IV. 33 The General..sent out the Indians to hunt up the Spanish horses and cattell. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 488 They enter..with a view of chasing the roebuck, and hunting up the sturdy bear. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 265 If he finds them within three or four miles of his house, he thinks himself fortunate; but it sometimes happens that he is two days in ‘hunting them up’, as they term it. 1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. vii. 75 [He] employed his time in hunting up all the old students that he had known formerly. 1884 J. A. H. Murray in 13th Addr. Philol. Soc. 20 In..hunting up earlier quotations for recent words. P4. to hunt change (change n. Phrases 3), to hunt counter (counter adv. 1), to hunt in couples at couple n. 1b, to hunt the foil foil n.4, to hunt at force (see force n.1 22a), to hunt riot n., to hunt at the view (view n. Phrases 4a): see these words. ΚΠ 1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. D2 Allaye, Relaye, Foreloyning, Hunt-cownter, Hunt-change, Quarry, Reward, and a thousand more such Vtopian fragments of confused Gibberish. < as lemmas |
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