hunt up
Britishverb
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(tr) to search for, esp successfully
I couldn't hunt up a copy of it anywhere
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(intr) (of a bell) to be rung progressively earlier during a set of changes
Example Sentences
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After a 47-year-long search, physicists would not give the hunt up that lightly.
From Economist • Dec. 14, 2011
That was certainly part of the pitch, but he didn't have to go to the library to hunt up the passages.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2011
A weak swimmer, he wisely decided to wade ashore and hunt up another, safer ford, farther upstream.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now we�re planning to do a spring bear hunt up in Alaska.�
From Time Magazine Archive
We’d be delighted if you could hunt up a good detective for us.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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