| 单词 | to hunt up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hunt up 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. < as lemmas |
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