HUNTED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

hunted

verb

Definition of hunted next

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 buddies have actively hunted for them over the years. —

Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026 Most of episode 8, directed by Andrew DeYoung, follows Patricia (Kate O'Flynn) as she's hunted by the Boogeyman, the masked killer who would get right along with Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees. —

Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 Dusky sharks were nearly hunted to extinction in the late 20th century when commercial fisheries in the Gulf and Atlantic ramped up, according to Demian Chapman, senior scientist and director for the Center for Shark Research at the Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida. —

Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 June 2026 Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, 108 minutes Samara Weaving returns to her breakout role as Grace MacCaullay in a sequel that explodes the concept of the original 2019 thriller — in which Grace is hunted by the family of her fiancé as part of a satanic ritual — to create its own mythology. —

Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 27 May 2026 Turner decreed that wolves on his land were never to be hunted or lethally controlled. —

Todd Wilkinson, Denver Post, 27 May 2026 The moa — a massive flightless bird that once roamed New Zealand — could weigh up to 500 pounds before it was hunted to extinction centuries ago. —

Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026 In 1984, traces of mitochondrial DNA had been found in the skin of a taxidermied quagga, a zebra-like species that had been hunted to extinction in the 1800s. —

Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026 But creating an artificial incubator was necessary because the Giant Moa, a flightless bird that was hunted to extinction on New Zealand a few hundred years ago by Maori settlers, also had giant eggs, far larger than any living bird, even an ostrich, could possibly carry and lay. —

David Bloom, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026

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Chow and his son chased the boy out of the store and off the store property, for about 130 yards.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 2 June 2026
Then, Rage chased Abdi with his arm extended and Abdi collapsed to the ground, video showed.

— Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 1 June 2026