hunt sb/sth down
— phrasal verb with hunt uk/hʌnt/us/hʌnt/verb [ I or T ]
to search everywhere for someone or something until you find him, her, or it:
The terrorists must be hunted down and brought to justice.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- quest
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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