HUNTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hunted mean? 

• HUNTED (adjective)
  The adjective HUNTED has 1 sense:

1. reflecting the fear or terror of one who is hunted

  Familiarity information: HUNTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reflecting the fear or terror of one who is hunted

Context example:

a glitter of apprehension in her hunted eyes

Similar:

afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)

 Context examples 

I suppose one ought to pity any thing so hunted as is the Count.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the Wild he had hunted live meat that was infinitely timid, and he knew the advantage of surprise.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The men made snowshoes, hunted fresh meat for the larder, and in the long evenings played endless games of whist and pedro.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He hunted and shot, and she humoured her children; and these were their only resources.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It’s a rookery, the kind of a thing I’ve hunted for years.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So you came over, the two of you, and hunted up the girl.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have often wondered since why he should have carried about these shells with him in his wandering, guilty, and hunted life.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

From then onwards he had hunted by sight, for the path showed him where I had gone.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The effects of hunting can extend far beyond the hunted, threatening the overall health of the trees that make up the forest.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)

These animals must have been hunted by sailing northwest up the Greenland coast, and more recent specimens were smaller and often female.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)