English
Noun
witch-hunt (plural witch-hunts)
- (historical) A search for witches, persons believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, in order to persecute and typically kill them.
- An attempt to find and publicly punish a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds.
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1938 November 18, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia:- Rank-and-file Communists everywhere are led away on a senseless witch-hunt after 'Trotskyists'.
- A public smear-campaign against an individual.
Derived terms
Translations
persecution of persons believed to be using magic
- Armenian: վհուկների որս (vhukneri ors)
- Catalan: caça de bruixes f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 猎巫 (lièwū), 猎女巫 (liènǚwū)
- Danish: heksejagt c
- Dutch: heksenjacht (nl) m, f
- Finnish: noitavaino (fi)
- French: chasse aux sorcières (fr) f
- German: Hexenjagd (de) f
- Greek: κυνήγι μαγισσών n (kynígi magissón)
- Italian: caccia alle streghe f
- Japanese: 魔女狩り (ja) (まじょがり, majogari)
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- Korean: 마녀사냥 (manyeosanyang)
- Norwegian: heksejakt (no) m, f
- Polish: polowanie na czarownice (pl) n
- Portuguese: caça às bruxas f
- Russian: охо́та на ведьм (ru) f (oxóta na vedʹm)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лов на вјештице m
- Roman: lov na vještice m
- Spanish: caza de brujas f
- Turkish: cadı avı
- Volapük: (♂♀) magivanayag, (♂) himagivanayag, (♀) jimagivanayag
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campaign to punish dissident persons
- Armenian: վհուկների որս (vhukneri ors)
- Catalan: caça de bruixes f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 政治迫害 (zhèngzhì pòhài)
- Danish: heksejagt c
- Dutch: heksenjacht (nl) m, f
- Finnish: noitavaino (fi)
- French: chasse aux sorcières (fr) f
- German: Hexenjagd (de) f
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- Greek: κυνήγι μαγισσών n (kynígi magissón)
- Italian: caccia alle streghe f
- Norwegian: heksejakt (no) m, f
- Polish: polowanie na czarownice (pl) n
- Portuguese: caça às bruxas f
- Russian: охо́та на ведьм (ru) f (oxóta na vedʹm)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лов на вјештице m
- Roman: lov na vještice m
- Spanish: caza de brujas f
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See also