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Track down   /træk daʊn/   Listen
Track down

verb
1.
Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals).  Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, run.  "The dogs are running deer" , "The Duke hunted in these woods"






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"Track down" Quotes from Famous Books



... as a conning tower and equipped with periscope and telescope and wireless. Furthermore, her house is situated on a bleak hill so that nothing impedes her view and that of her two pets, a magpie and a jackal. And the business in life of all three of them is to track down and destroy the good name of every woman who comes within range, especially if she is ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post

... during that time. His attorneys saw a good deal of him, and, as a result, a campaign to track down the instigator of this shooting was inaugurated. And that instigator was, without a ...
— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum

... there arose the question of tanks. Now a tank could not possibly at that time have been got along the Murmansk railway without squashing the whole track down for good and all into the marshes across which the permanent way was conveyed by precarious and provisional processes. Needless to say, we had no tanks to spare to be kept reposing idle for months at ports and congested junctions, awaiting transport to Vilna or Podolia. But as ...
— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell



Words linked to "Track down" :   hunt down, hunt, poach, rabbit, course, drive, snipe, forage, catch, whale, capture, fowl, ambush, ferret, jack, hawk, still-hunt, scrounge, falcon, jacklight, seal, foxhunt, turtle



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