Hunt

Definition

hunt /hʌnt/ v ၁။ ေတာလိုက္သည္။ အမဲလိုက္သည္။ (ေရေနသတၱဝါ) ဖမ္းသည္။ go hunting ❍ Wolves hunt in packs. ❍ eagles hunting their prey. ❍ Porpoises are still being hunted and killed in the Arctic. ၂။ ~ (for sth/sb) ရွာသည္။ ရွာေဖြသည္။ ႀကိဳးစားပမ္းစားရွာသည္။ hunt for a lost book ❍ I've hunted everywhere but I can't find it. ❍ Police are hunting an escaped criminal. n ၁။ [C usu sing ] ရွာျခင္း။ ရွာေဖြျခင္း။ I had a good hunt for that key. ❍ a murder hunt (ie a hunt for sb who has killed sb) ❍ The hunt is on for a suitable candidate. ၂။ (က) [C] (often in compounds) အမဲလိုက္ျခင္း။ ေတာလိုက္ ျခင္း။ a fox-hunt. (ခ) [CGp] ( esp Brit ) မုဆိုးအုပ္စု။ a member of the Portman Hunt. ❏ hunt sb/sth down [ PHRV ] မေတြ႕ေတြ႕ေအာင္ရွာသည္။ လိုက္ဖမ္းသည္။ Fleeing villagers were hunted down by army helicopters. ❏ hunter n ၁။ မုဆိုး။ အမဲလိုက္သူ။ ေတာလိုက္မုဆိုး။ … ဖမ္းသမား။ … ရွာသူ။ hunters of big game in Africa ❍ seal hunters ❍ job hunters. See also HEAD-HUNTER ၂။ ေျမေခြးလိုက္ျမင္း။ ❏ hunting n [U] (က) အမဲလိုက္ျခင္း။ ေတာလိုက္ျခင္း။ He earned extra money by hunting and fishing. ❍ a hunting knife. (ခ) (အထူးသျဖင့္ ၿဗိတိန္တြင္) ေျမေခြးလိုက္။ a hunting jacket. See also BARGAIN-HUNTING ❏ hunting-ground n စားက်က္။ Crowded markets are a happy hunting-ground for pickpockets. ❏ hunt sth out [ PHRV ] ရွာသည္။ ေဖြသည္။ ေမႊသည္။ hunt out an old diary. ❏ hunt sth up [ PHRV ] ရွာသည္။ လွန္ေလွာရွာသည္။ hunt up references in the library.

Examples

1. Crocodiles were hunted and killed for their teeth.
2. [hunt for] : We hunted for rabbits in the hills.
3. Wild dogs usually hunt in packs.
4. Police are still hunting the killer.
5. [hunt for] : Detectives have been hunting for clues to the murderer’s identity.
6. [hunt for] : He began by hunting around for information.
7. [hunt through/over/around] : I’ve hunted all over the house for my keys.