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manhunt

/man-huhnt/US // ˈmænˌhʌnt //UK // (ˈmænˌhʌnt) //

追捕,缉捕,搜查,搜捕

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
    • : an intensive search for any person.

Examples

  • The FBI has led a manhunt to find Laundrie—so far with no success.

  • Newspapers published photos celebrating the success of the secret manhunt.

  • Less than a week after Villa’s raid, Pershing and his Punitive Expedition, as it was called, crossed into Mexico to commence their manhunt.

  • Police arrested Robert Aaron Long, 21, after a brief manhunt and said he is the suspect in all eight deaths.

  • In 2013, it was deployed by law enforcement during the 20-hour manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers.

  • Jonathan “War Machine” Koppenhaver was arrested after a weeklong manhunt.

  • For them the 18-day search for the Israeli teens and the manhunt for their captors was tantamount to collective punishment.

  • Outside a Virginia jail where Salvi was later held after a nationwide manhunt, his supporters gathered.

  • Merah was gunned down by police after a tense manhunt and violent 32-hour standoff at his apartment.

  • A joint U.S.-Mexico security operation ended a 13-year manhunt for El Chapo, the head of the feared Sinaloa cartel.

  • Then began a real manhunt, with all its hideous and atrocious interludes.

  • It was not an especially auspicious beginning to their manhunt.

  • Truly, in the present case he was much more concerned than in an ordinary manhunt.

  • That was Federation-wide news; the end of a fifteen-year manhunt for the most wanted criminal in the known Galaxy.

  • But prudence is apt to be forgotten in the excitement of a hunt, and a manhunt is the most thrilling of all chases.