
hunt down
This page is about the phrasal verb hunt down
Meaning
If you hunt down someone, you try to find them and capture or kill them.
For example
- hunt sb/sth down The police are hunting the killer down, and they say they're close to catching him.
- hunt down sb/sth The leader of a drug gang has ordered his men to hunt down police informers and kill them.
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