Hunt vs Crusade - What's the difference?
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To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
* Bible, Genesis xxvii. 5
* Tennyson
* 2010 , Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound (ISBN 1449084354), page 10:
To try to find something; search.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= * 2004 , Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women (ISBN 1578601541), page 119:
* 2011 , Ann Major, Nobody's Child (ISBN 1459271939):
To drive; to chase; with down'', ''from'', ''away , etc.
To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
* Addison
To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
The act of hunting.
A hunting expedition.
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization).
Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
(figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
(archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
Hunt is a related term of crusade.
As proper nouns the difference between hunt and crusade
is that hunt is for a hunter (for game, birds etc) while crusade is one of a series of ostensibly religious campaigns by christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the holy land from the muslims who occupied it.hunt
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Verb
(en verb)- Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
- Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
- State Wildlife Management Areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt deer on public lands.
- He after honour hunts , I after love.
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- My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
- What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
- The police are hunting for evidence.
- to hunt down a criminal
- He was hunted from the parish.
- He hunts a pack of dogs.
- He hunts the woods, or the country.
Derived terms
* hunt where the ducks are * that dog won't huntNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* treasure huntcrusade
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Alternative forms
(medieval history) (Crusade)Noun
(en noun)- During the crusades , many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered.
- a crusade against drug abuse
Derived terms
* crusaderReferences
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See also
* holy war * jihad * Miles ChristiVerb
(crusad)- He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.