manhuntnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmæn.hʌnt/us/ˈmæn.hʌnt/an organized search for a person, especially a criminal:
The police have launched a manhunt after the body of a six-year-old boy was found last night.
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- quest
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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