hunt\ down

hunt\ down
1. III
hunt down smb. /smb. down/ I hunt down a stag затравить оленя
2)
hunt down a murderer (a criminal, an escaped prisoner, the terrorists, an offender, etc.) выследить / поймать/ убийцу и т. д.
2. XI
be hunted down at some time the stag was hunted down in the long run в конце концов оленя затравили; the offender was finally hunted down преступника, наконец, поймали

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