TRACK DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does track down mean? 

• TRACK DOWN (verb)
  The verb TRACK DOWN has 1 sense:

1. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

  Familiarity information: TRACK DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRACK DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

hunt; hunt down; run; track down

Context example:

The Duke hunted in these woods

Hypernyms (to "track down" is one way to...):

capture; catch (capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping)

Verb group:

hunt (search (an area) for prey)

run (cause an animal to move fast)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "track down"):

seal (hunt seals)

forage; scrounge (collect or look around for (food))

fowl (hunt fowl)

falcon (hunt with falcons)

hawk (hunt with hawks)

jack; jacklight (hunt with a jacklight)

foxhunt (hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs)

course (hunt with hounds)

ferret (hunt with ferrets)

snipe (hunt or shoot snipe)

poach (hunt illegally)

fowl (hunt fowl in the forest)

rabbit (hunt rabbits)

drive ((hunting) search for game)

drive ((hunting) chase from cover into more open ground)

turtle (hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation)

ambush; still-hunt (hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing)

whale (hunt for whales)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Kiziltan's group tracked the movement of two dozen pulsars and used computer simulations to model the cluster to track down their black-hole candidate.

(Elusive Middleweight Black Hole Found at Center of Giant Star Cluster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When these horse-keeping farmers need cash, they track down their horses in the forest and sell them.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

Appreciation of nature found no place among his many gifts, and his only change was when he turned his mind from the evil-doer of the town to track down his brother of the country.

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

This discovery allowed a team led by Frédéric Vogt, an ESO Fellow in Chile, to track down the first ever isolated neutron star with low magnetic field located beyond our own Milky Way galaxy.

(Dead Star Circled by Light, ESO)