hunted

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adjpursued

Synonyms for hunted

adj pursued

victim

noun. someone or something sacrificed, preyed upon

victims

noun. someone or something sacrificed, preyed upon

Word Origin & History

Old English huntian "chase game," related to hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *huntojan (cf. Gothic hinþan "to seize, capture," Old High German hunda "booty"), from PIE *kend-.

General sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first recorded c.1200. Related: Hunted; hunting. Happy hunting-grounds "Native American afterlife paradise" is from "Last of the Mohicans" (1826).

Example Sentences for hunted

Every family lived and hunted and worked and died for and by itself.

Then the door closed, and Dozier turned slowly to face his hunted man.

If they've hunted the woods around here all day, no use in me doing it by night.

He turned and began to run homewards, like a hunted man in desperate flight.

Dick looked around like a hunted animal seeking a bolting-hole.

The words were like the dreaded tap on the shoulder of the hunted criminal.

With no crime laid to him, he was hunted down as a wild beast.

There he hunted and studied astronomy and astrology with the canons of Bolton.

We hunted for them one day, two days, and could not find them.

She was like a hunted hare, dodging everyone she fancied might discover her identity.

hunted

Synonyms for hunted

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traced

tracked

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