hunt down

phrasal verb

hunted down; hunting down; hunts down

: to succeed in finding (something)

It may take me a while to hunt down the phone number.

: to find and capture (someone)

The killer was hunted down with help from his relatives.

Examples of hunt down in a Sentence

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There’s something embarrassing about being hunted down by a gangster who calls himself Leftie and runs around with a henchman called Lonnie. —

Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025 Pregnant tiger keelbacks have been shown to go to greater lengths to hunt down these toads than male or non-gestating females, which prefer the more readily available tree frogs of their habitats. —

Ryley Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025 The Jedi Master taught him some basic training before she was hunted down during Order 66. —

Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2025 The United States advised the Philippine army and joined in jungle patrols to hunt down Islamist extremists. —

Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for hunt down