(transitive) To hunt something and capture or kill it. / (transitive) To destroy by persecution or violence. / (transitive, colloquial) To find with difficulty.

(now chiefly historical) A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.

(Britain) A person who does not approve of hunting and tries to sabotage it; used especially in reference to fox hunting.

(informal) To perform a witch-hunt.

(idiomatic) A prank in which a gullible victim is sent off on a fruitless search for a nonexistent item.

(intransitive) To participate, as the gullible victim, in a snipe hunt.

Describing a method of typing used by a person unfamiliar with the layout of a keyboard or keypad in which the person has to search for the keys to be pressed or struck one by one and uses one or both index fingers to operate the keys; also used to describe a typist who uses this technique.

(transitive) to typewrite in an awkward, unskilled way, with two or even a single finger.

(computing) The hunt-and-peck typing technique.

plural of witch-hunt