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Nov 30, 2009
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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.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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