Hunt and Try

Hunt

Hunt verb - To seek out (game) for food or sport.

Try and hunt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Hunt".

Nearby Words: hunted, hunting, hunter, huntsman

Try

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

Hunt and try are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hunt" instead a verb "Try".

Nearby Words: tried, trying

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

man hunt man try man
people hunt people try people
someone hunt someone try someone
time hunt time try time
Other words: game, food, player.

Both words in one sentence

  • Monster / Live-Action TV 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.
  • Video Game / Alien: Isolation This guarantees the survivor time to get away and bring back help to try and hunt Amanda down and kill her.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain 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—
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