hunt down

verb

hunted down; hunting down; hunts down

1

: to succeed in finding (something)

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

2

: to find and capture (someone)

The killer was hunted down with help from his relatives.

Examples of hunt down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The series starred Melissa Roxburgh as a former FBI profiler who leads a team assembled to hunt down escaped killers who fled a mysterious prison. — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 6 July 2026

During its mission to hunt down Puma, Jackal was able to demonstrate several critical capabilities, including proximity operations and satellite image identification. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 3 July 2026

Norway is hunting down an opportunity for Haaland in the box, but Ivory Coast has done a good job keeping multiple bodies on the 6-foot-4 superstar. — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026

Ocean predators such as the seal, whale, dolphin, and walrus would be hunted down and made into supermarket steaks. — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026

Rhymes for hunt down

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• godown
• hometown