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witch' hunt"
an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.
Also,witch'-hunt".witch-hunt
Pronunciation: (wich'hunt"), [key]—
v.t.
to subject to a witch hunt.
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