Hunt
Hunt verb - To seek out (game) for food or sport.
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good hunt | good try |
| common | common hunt | common try |
| complete | complete hunt | complete try |
| proper | proper hunt | proper try |
| Other adjectives: deep, actual, entire, real, big, final, next, last, extended, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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After Stonebridge and Crawford storm Tahir's camp and rescue Clare, he gathers what soldiers he has left to try and hunt them all down.
Source: Monster / Live-Action TV -
This guarantees the survivor time to get away and bring back help to try and hunt Amanda down and kill her.
Source: Video Game / Alien: Isolation -
Chakotay: We finally make a connection with home and then it's ripped away from us; We manage to make another enemy who's going to try and hunt us down and destroy us; and on top of that—
Source: Yank the Dog's Chain
Cite this Source
Try and Hunt. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hunt/try
Hunt & Try. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hunt/try>.
Try or Hunt. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hunt/try.
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