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verb hunts down · hunting down · 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.

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verb hunt something and capture it

Italianodare la caccia

verb find with difficulty

Italianodare la caccia

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"hunt down." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hunt%20down. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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hunt down. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hunt%20down

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"hunt down." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hunt%20down.

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@misc{hunt_down_2026,
  title = {hunt down},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hunt%20down},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}