hunt vs snipe

hunt and snipe both are nouns.

hunt and snipe both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hunt	Yes	No	Yes	No
snipe	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, snipe is a hyponym of hunt; that is, snipe is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hunt:

hunt: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
snipe: hunt or shoot snipe

Other hyponyms of hunt include whale, ambush, still-hunt, turtle, drive, drive, rabbit, fowl, poach, seal, ferret, course, foxhunt, jack, jacklight, hawk, falcon, fowl, forage, scrounge.

hunt (noun)	snipe (noun)
the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts	a gunshot from a concealed location
the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport	Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
an instance of searching for something
an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

hunt (verb)	snipe (verb)
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)	attack in speech or writing
search (an area) for prey	aim and shoot with great precision
seek, search for	hunt or shoot snipe
pursue or chase relentlessly
chase away, with as with force
yaw back and forth about a flight path
oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

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