quarry
An animal that is being chased or hunted down, or more broadly, any person or thing that someone is actively pursuing or searching for.
Forms
- plural
- quarries
Examples
- The hounds picked up the scent of their quarry and dashed into the woods.
- Detectives spent months trailing their quarry across three different cities before finally catching up.
- For the photographer, the rare bird was a prized quarry worth waiting hours to capture.
All Words
- vivacious
full of lively energy and enthusiasm; spirited and animated in manner
- sanguine
feeling or showing confident optimism about a situation, even when things seem difficult
- fastidious
paying extremely close attention to detail and being hard to please; showing great care about accuracy or cleanliness