HUNTED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

hunted

verb

past tense of hunt

as in chased

to seek out (game) for food or sport Native Americans of the plains hunted buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter

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as in pursued

to go in search of I spent all afternoon hunting a job for the summer

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as in searched

to go into or range over for purposes of discovery a bag lady hunts the neighborhood for returnable bottles

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Recent Examples of hunted The Freedom — led by coach Paulo Crimber — hunted for their third win of the homestand, facing the Carolina Cowboys, who were 1-1 so far. — Ava Dicecca, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2026 By last summer, the government had certified more than 178,000 Afghans as having worked for the United States and being hunted for it. — Shawn Vandiver, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026 Rahill has professionally hunted pythons for over a decade and is the founder of Swamp Apes. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026 Woolly mammoths coexisted with early humans who hunted the cold-resistant herbivores for food and used their tusks and bones as tools. — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026 During an early first-team period, Ferrell hunted Malik Willis down from across the field on a play-action pass, closing from the opposite side for a would-be sack. — Tyler M. Carmona, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026 In that massacre, Black South Carolinians were systematically hunted throughout their community over an alleged attack on a white elderly woman, which was later proved false. — Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026 Marmots, woodland creatures whose raw viscera are believed by Siberians to have medicinal properties, are not infrequently hunted by poachers and sold at wet markets. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026 Right whales were once common off the East Coast, but they were hunted to near extinction during the commercial whaling era. — ABC News, 22 July 2026

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Verb

There were two on with two outs in the sixth when an RBI single by Peña cut the lead to 3-1 and chased Bieber.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Griffin Conine and Heriberto Hernandez worked walks to open the frame before Marsee chased Senga with a two-run double to right.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of chased

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After 16 years working in media, Ellner changed gears and pursued a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) at the University of Westminster in London.

— Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
He was drafted at 18 and, after the war, pursued singing at the American Theatre Wing—an education funded by the GI Bill.

— Eleni N. Gage, Architectural Digest, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of pursued

Verb

Police said that the suspect had also searched for websites on mass shootings before the attack and that the gun belonged to his grandfather and had been registered.

— Connor Greene, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
The systems then searched for ways to obtain that material directly rather than solve every challenge as intended.

— Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of searched

Verb

Cepo stalked from the center and staggered Urbina with an overhand right, then pinned him to the fence and punched wildly.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Kohberger may have stalked his female victims After the slayings, one of the victims’ roommates Dylan Mortensen told the Moscow Police Department that Goncalves thought she was being followed in the weeks before she was murdered.

— Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026

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Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham sought in an opening statement last week to keep jurors' focus on the defendant, not her doctors.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Militaries often run command and control operations away from the frontlines; enemies have sought to disrupt those communications through jamming and, in the past few decades, cyberattacks.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026

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First, there was Green Porno, her series of shorts that launched in 2008 on the Sundance Channel and explored some of the more bizarre mating behaviors in nature.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026
Crutchfield and Molt’s rivalry is explored in the book Stolen World by Jennie Erin Smith—like Monsters of God’s first episode, the author uses the two men as a window into how smuggling has fuelled the popularity of reptiles in modern America.

— Rory Doherty, Time, 6 Aug. 2026