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hunt down vs scrounge

scrounge vs hunt down

hunt down and scrounge both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
hunt down No No Yes No
scrounge No No Yes No
As verbs, scrounge is a hyponym of hunt down; that is, scrounge is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hunt down:
  • hunt down: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
  • scrounge: collect or look around for (food)
Other hyponyms of hunt down include snipe, whale, ambush, still-hunt, turtle, drive, drive, rabbit, fowl, poach, seal, ferret, course, foxhunt, jack, jacklight, hawk, falcon, fowl, forage.
hunt down (verb) scrounge (verb)
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) collect or look around for (food)
obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling
Difference between hunt down and scrounge

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