- 1chasing and killing wild animals and birds as a sport or for food to go hunting In the tiger, evolution has produced a perfect hunting machine. see fox hunting
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- 2(in compounds) the process of looking for something We're going house-hunting at the weekend. How's the job-hunting going?
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