The difference between Come after and Hunt
When used as verbs, come after means to pursue or follow, whereas hunt means to find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
Hunt is also noun with the meaning: the act of hunting.
check bellow for the other definitions of Come after and Hunt
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Come after as a verb:
To pursue or follow; to pursue with hostile intent.
Examples:
"Don't try to come after me."
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Come after as a verb:
To follow or succeed; to be the successor of.
Examples:
"Who came after Richard the Lionheart?"
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Hunt as a verb (ambitransitive):
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
Examples:
"State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands."
"Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season."
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Hunt as a verb (ambitransitive):
To try to find something; search (for).
Examples:
"The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach."
"The police are hunting for evidence."
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Hunt as a verb (transitive):
To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
Examples:
"to hunt down a criminal"
"He was hunted from the parish."
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Hunt as a verb (transitive):
To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
Examples:
"Did you hunt that pony last week?"
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Hunt as a verb (transitive):
To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
Examples:
"He hunts the woods, or the country."
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Hunt as a verb (bell-ringing, transitive):
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
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Hunt as a verb (bell-ringing, intransitive):
To shift up and down in order regularly.
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Hunt as a verb (engineering, intransitive):
To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
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Hunt as a noun:
The act of hunting.
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Hunt as a noun:
A hunting expedition.
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Hunt as a noun:
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
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Hunt as a noun:
A pack of hunting dogs.