track down

track down
verb
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) (Freq. 3)
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Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland

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The dogs are running deer

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The Duke hunted in these woods

Syn: ↑hunt, ↑run, ↑hunt down
Derivationally related forms: ↑hunt (for: ↑hunt), ↑hunter (for: ↑hunt), ↑hunting (for: ↑hunt)
Hypernyms: ↑capture, ↑catch
Hyponyms:
snipe, ↑whale, ↑still-hunt, ↑ambush, ↑turtle, ↑drive, ↑rabbit, ↑fowl, ↑poach, ↑seal, ↑ferret, ↑course, ↑foxhunt, ↑jacklight, ↑jack, ↑hawk, ↑falcon, ↑scrounge, ↑forage
Verb Group: ↑run, ↑hunt
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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[verb]
find, dig up, discover, hunt down, run to earth or ground, sniff out, trace, unearth

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track down
To find after intensive search
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Main Entry:track

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ˌtrack ˈdown [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they track down he/she/it tracks down present participle tracking down past tense tracked down past participle tracked down] phrasal verb
to find someone or something after a long search

I finally managed to track him down in Manchester.

Thesaurus: to find something or someonesynonym
Main entry: track

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