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WITCH-HUNT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does witch-hunt mean?
• WITCH-HUNT (noun)
The noun WITCH-HUNT has 1 sense:
1. searching out and harassing dissenters
Familiarity information: WITCH-HUNT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Searching out and harassing dissenters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("witch-hunt" is a kind of...):
harassment; molestation (the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "witch-hunt"):
McCarthyism (unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists))
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