hunt down

phrasal verb

hunted down; hunting down; hunts down

: to succeed in finding (something)

It may take me a while to hunt down the phone number.

: to find and capture (someone)

The killer was hunted down with help from his relatives.

Examples of hunt down in a Sentence

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Four months after the first North Korean anti-tank missile vehicles showed up along the front line of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, Ukrainian drone operators have hunted down one of the vehicles. —

David Axe, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024 With a massive 11,000Pa of suction power, this robot will hunt down all the dust bunnies, dirt, and even pet hair on your floors after your furbabies are done playing. —

PCMAG, 2 Dec. 2024 Still, not having to hunt down a power outlet at the airport or deal with those janky sockets on the plane will be worth the extra weight. —

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2024 McNab knows all this because a good one inhabited his daughter, and she was hunted down and killed by a bad one. —

James Grebey, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hunt down