hunt up

English

Verb

hunt up (third-person singular simple present hunts up, present participle hunting up, simple past and past participle hunted up)

1. (transitive) To hunt for; to seek out.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     She had agreed with Malone's conclusions. She had even hunted up a good deal of evidence of her own.