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English noun: hunting | |||
| 1. | hunting (act) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | ||
| Synonyms | hunt | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | blood sport, field sport, outdoor sport | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | battue, beagling, coursing, deer hunt, deer hunting, duck hunting, ducking, fox hunting, foxhunt, pigsticking | ||
| Domain category members | bag, batfowl, ensnare, entrap, gin, snare, trammel, trap | ||
| 2. | hunting (act) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | ||
| Synonyms | hunt, search | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | activity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | exploration, forage, foraging, frisk, frisking, looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, ransacking, rummage, scouring, seeking, shakedown | ||
| 3. | hunting (act) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | ||
| Synonyms | hunt | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | labor, labour, toil | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | birdnesting, canned hunt, predation, stalk, stalking, still hunt | ||
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