Definition of witch-hunt in English:

witch-hunt

nounˈwtʃhʌntˈwɪtʃ ˌhənt

A campaign directed against a person or group holding views considered unorthodox or a threat to society.
〈非正式〉（对持非正统或持不受欢迎观点者或团体的）政治迫害
he claimed he was the victim of a media witch-hunt
Example sentencesExamples
- She was speaking about the recent anti-paedophilia campaign in this country and mob-ruled witch-hunts in Portsmouth over the weekend.
- Gogo said the investigations should not be viewed as a witch-hunt to remove councillors before the municipal elections.
- Most coverage of his problems portrays the computer scientist as the victim of a political witch-hunt, and so misses the real story, which is about his links to terrorism.
- This was the basis on which the Cold War witch-hunt was launched inside the US.
- I was looking at the FBI files and saw that my mother had written protesting the government's witch-hunt of the labor unions.
- Kinsey's first major work on sexuality appeared during the first years of the Cold War, on the eve of the McCarthyite witch-hunts.
- He claimed he was the victim of a witch-hunt by fellow officers who said he actively sought complaints against him.
- The U.S. Congress, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, conducted witch-hunts in search of Communist sympathizers.
- He was among the earliest figures to publicly confront Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt.
- President Putin tried to redress the balance by warning against ethnic witch-hunts.
- In the early Cold War Era, amid anti-Communist witch-hunts and nuclear threats, most American humorists followed the safe path of presenting apolitical consensus-oriented material.
- Her release has been carefully planned to avoid a tabloid witch-hunt and to reduce the possibility she may be threatened or attacked.
- However, during the McCarthy-era anti-communist witch-hunts he was once again named as a risk to national security by an informer who described him as ‘an active and fanatical Stalinist’.
- The problem is that what originally started out as a health campaign, has more or less turned into a witch-hunt in Norway.
- However, he had outspoken left-wing political sympathies and at the time of the anti-Communist witch-hunts in the 1940s and 1950s he was dogged by various investigating committees.
- The film is about a Hollywood screenwriter who is blacklisted as part of an anti-Communist witch-hunt.
- The most famous question of the anti-communist witch-hunts in America was ‘Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?’
- The item accepted Hayward entirely on his own terms as the victim of a merciless witch-hunt.
- She has portrayed herself as a victim of a witch-hunt by power-mad officials who would use circumstantial evidence to ruin her reputation and career.
- After World War Two Claudia, along with thousands of other US radicals, fell foul of the anti-Communist witch-hunt.
- Elderly paediatricians and pathologists fear that they are becoming the victims of a witch-hunt.

Derivatives

witch-hunting

nounˈwɪtʃhʌntɪŋ

But this doesn't stop the witch-hunting, because witch-hunting does not work by logic, but by ill-will, venom and bias.
Example sentencesExamples
- There's no question the director, a Dane named Benjamin Christensen, wants to slam witch-hunting in this movie.
- We are an integral part of this society, and have been for decades, and are not some kind of alien institution put in place to pursue foreign agendas and witch-hunting of Government.
- My hope is that action and reaction will be handled in a cool and calm fashion, without witch-hunting and misguided vigilante action.
- Much needs to be done in word and deed to heal the wounds that have been opened as a result of inner-party dissension and witch-hunting.

Definition of witch-hunt in US English:

witch-hunt

nounˈwiCH ˌhəntˈwɪtʃ ˌhənt

historical

1A search for and subsequent persecution of a supposed witch.
〈史〉对被认为是行巫者的追捕及迫害
Example sentencesExamples
- So outraged was Miller that he wrote this allegorical play about the witch-hunts of Salem Massachusetts in the late 1600's as a way of demonstrating how ignorance, deceit, fear and mass hysteria can grip a community and all but destroy it.
- Their mutual devotion carried them through several witch-hunts, aroused both by their heretical views on marriage and Mary's newfound gifts as a medium and spiritual healer.
- Speakeasy is working on a documentary on witch-hunts in Scotland, looking at why 10% of the witches killed in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries were killed in Scotland.
- Old women were the stereotypical victims of earlier witch-hunts, but this hunt focused on vagrants and beggars, mostly boys and young men.
- Oster also studied modern African witch-hunts and found that most victims were older women.
1. 1.1informal A campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views.
  〈非正式〉（对持非正统或持不受欢迎观点者或团体的）政治迫害
  Example sentencesExamples
  The film is about a Hollywood screenwriter who is blacklisted as part of an anti-Communist witch-hunt.
  The item accepted Hayward entirely on his own terms as the victim of a merciless witch-hunt.
  However, during the McCarthy-era anti-communist witch-hunts he was once again named as a risk to national security by an informer who described him as ‘an active and fanatical Stalinist’.
  She has portrayed herself as a victim of a witch-hunt by power-mad officials who would use circumstantial evidence to ruin her reputation and career.
  Her release has been carefully planned to avoid a tabloid witch-hunt and to reduce the possibility she may be threatened or attacked.
  The problem is that what originally started out as a health campaign, has more or less turned into a witch-hunt in Norway.
  He was among the earliest figures to publicly confront Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt.
  In the early Cold War Era, amid anti-Communist witch-hunts and nuclear threats, most American humorists followed the safe path of presenting apolitical consensus-oriented material.
  Gogo said the investigations should not be viewed as a witch-hunt to remove councillors before the municipal elections.
  The most famous question of the anti-communist witch-hunts in America was ‘Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?’
  President Putin tried to redress the balance by warning against ethnic witch-hunts.
  The U.S. Congress, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, conducted witch-hunts in search of Communist sympathizers.
  Kinsey's first major work on sexuality appeared during the first years of the Cold War, on the eve of the McCarthyite witch-hunts.
  Most coverage of his problems portrays the computer scientist as the victim of a political witch-hunt, and so misses the real story, which is about his links to terrorism.
  He claimed he was the victim of a witch-hunt by fellow officers who said he actively sought complaints against him.
  She was speaking about the recent anti-paedophilia campaign in this country and mob-ruled witch-hunts in Portsmouth over the weekend.
  I was looking at the FBI files and saw that my mother had written protesting the government's witch-hunt of the labor unions.
  After World War Two Claudia, along with thousands of other US radicals, fell foul of the anti-Communist witch-hunt.
  This was the basis on which the Cold War witch-hunt was launched inside the US.
  However, he had outspoken left-wing political sympathies and at the time of the anti-Communist witch-hunts in the 1940s and 1950s he was dogged by various investigating committees.
  Elderly paediatricians and pathologists fear that they are becoming the victims of a witch-hunt.

词汇	witch-hunt
释义	Definition of witch-hunt in English: witch-hunt nounˈwtʃhʌntˈwɪtʃ ˌhənt A campaign directed against a person or group holding views considered unorthodox or a threat to society. 〈非正式〉（对持非正统或持不受欢迎观点者或团体的）政治迫害 he claimed he was the victim of a media witch-hunt Example sentencesExamples She was speaking about the recent anti-paedophilia campaign in this country and mob-ruled witch-hunts in Portsmouth over the weekend. Gogo said the investigations should not be viewed as a witch-hunt to remove councillors before the municipal elections. Most coverage of his problems portrays the computer scientist as the victim of a political witch-hunt, and so misses the real story, which is about his links to terrorism. This was the basis on which the Cold War witch-hunt was launched inside the US. I was looking at the FBI files and saw that my mother had written protesting the government's witch-hunt of the labor unions. Kinsey's first major work on sexuality appeared during the first years of the Cold War, on the eve of the McCarthyite witch-hunts. He claimed he was the victim of a witch-hunt by fellow officers who said he actively sought complaints against him. The U.S. Congress, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, conducted witch-hunts in search of Communist sympathizers. He was among the earliest figures to publicly confront Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt. President Putin tried to redress the balance by warning against ethnic witch-hunts. In the early Cold War Era, amid anti-Communist witch-hunts and nuclear threats, most American humorists followed the safe path of presenting apolitical consensus-oriented material. Her release has been carefully planned to avoid a tabloid witch-hunt and to reduce the possibility she may be threatened or attacked. However, during the McCarthy-era anti-communist witch-hunts he was once again named as a risk to national security by an informer who described him as ‘an active and fanatical Stalinist’. The problem is that what originally started out as a health campaign, has more or less turned into a witch-hunt in Norway. However, he had outspoken left-wing political sympathies and at the time of the anti-Communist witch-hunts in the 1940s and 1950s he was dogged by various investigating committees. The film is about a Hollywood screenwriter who is blacklisted as part of an anti-Communist witch-hunt. The most famous question of the anti-communist witch-hunts in America was ‘Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?’ The item accepted Hayward entirely on his own terms as the victim of a merciless witch-hunt. She has portrayed herself as a victim of a witch-hunt by power-mad officials who would use circumstantial evidence to ruin her reputation and career. After World War Two Claudia, along with thousands of other US radicals, fell foul of the anti-Communist witch-hunt. Elderly paediatricians and pathologists fear that they are becoming the victims of a witch-hunt. Derivatives witch-hunting nounˈwɪtʃhʌntɪŋ But this doesn't stop the witch-hunting, because witch-hunting does not work by logic, but by ill-will, venom and bias. Example sentencesExamples There's no question the director, a Dane named Benjamin Christensen, wants to slam witch-hunting in this movie. We are an integral part of this society, and have been for decades, and are not some kind of alien institution put in place to pursue foreign agendas and witch-hunting of Government. My hope is that action and reaction will be handled in a cool and calm fashion, without witch-hunting and misguided vigilante action. Much needs to be done in word and deed to heal the wounds that have been opened as a result of inner-party dissension and witch-hunting. Definition of witch-hunt in US English: witch-hunt nounˈwiCH ˌhəntˈwɪtʃ ˌhənt historical 1A search for and subsequent persecution of a supposed witch. 〈史〉对被认为是行巫者的追捕及迫害 Example sentencesExamples So outraged was Miller that he wrote this allegorical play about the witch-hunts of Salem Massachusetts in the late 1600's as a way of demonstrating how ignorance, deceit, fear and mass hysteria can grip a community and all but destroy it. Their mutual devotion carried them through several witch-hunts, aroused both by their heretical views on marriage and Mary's newfound gifts as a medium and spiritual healer. Speakeasy is working on a documentary on witch-hunts in Scotland, looking at why 10% of the witches killed in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries were killed in Scotland. Old women were the stereotypical victims of earlier witch-hunts, but this hunt focused on vagrants and beggars, mostly boys and young men. Oster also studied modern African witch-hunts and found that most victims were older women. 1.1informal A campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views. 〈非正式〉（对持非正统或持不受欢迎观点者或团体的）政治迫害 Example sentencesExamples The film is about a Hollywood screenwriter who is blacklisted as part of an anti-Communist witch-hunt. The item accepted Hayward entirely on his own terms as the victim of a merciless witch-hunt. However, during the McCarthy-era anti-communist witch-hunts he was once again named as a risk to national security by an informer who described him as ‘an active and fanatical Stalinist’. She has portrayed herself as a victim of a witch-hunt by power-mad officials who would use circumstantial evidence to ruin her reputation and career. Her release has been carefully planned to avoid a tabloid witch-hunt and to reduce the possibility she may be threatened or attacked. The problem is that what originally started out as a health campaign, has more or less turned into a witch-hunt in Norway. He was among the earliest figures to publicly confront Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt. In the early Cold War Era, amid anti-Communist witch-hunts and nuclear threats, most American humorists followed the safe path of presenting apolitical consensus-oriented material. Gogo said the investigations should not be viewed as a witch-hunt to remove councillors before the municipal elections. The most famous question of the anti-communist witch-hunts in America was ‘Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?’ President Putin tried to redress the balance by warning against ethnic witch-hunts. The U.S. Congress, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, conducted witch-hunts in search of Communist sympathizers. Kinsey's first major work on sexuality appeared during the first years of the Cold War, on the eve of the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Most coverage of his problems portrays the computer scientist as the victim of a political witch-hunt, and so misses the real story, which is about his links to terrorism. He claimed he was the victim of a witch-hunt by fellow officers who said he actively sought complaints against him. She was speaking about the recent anti-paedophilia campaign in this country and mob-ruled witch-hunts in Portsmouth over the weekend. I was looking at the FBI files and saw that my mother had written protesting the government's witch-hunt of the labor unions. After World War Two Claudia, along with thousands of other US radicals, fell foul of the anti-Communist witch-hunt. This was the basis on which the Cold War witch-hunt was launched inside the US. However, he had outspoken left-wing political sympathies and at the time of the anti-Communist witch-hunts in the 1940s and 1950s he was dogged by various investigating committees. Elderly paediatricians and pathologists fear that they are becoming the victims of a witch-hunt.
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