hunt someone or something out

hunt someone or something out
hunt someone or something out
to find someone or something even if concealed. •

We will hunt them all out and find every last one of those guys.

We will hunt out all of them.

They hunted out the murderer.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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