witch huntnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈwɪtʃ ˌhʌnt/us/ˈwɪtʃ ˌhʌnt/disapprovingan attempt to find and punish people whose opinions are unpopular and who are said to be a danger to society:
In America, Senator McCarthy led a witch hunt against people suspected of being communists.
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- strip search
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
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