ALL meanings of witch-hunt
witch-hunt
W w - verb with object witch-hunt to subject to a witch hunt. 1
- noun witch-hunt an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence. 1
- countable noun witch-hunt A witch-hunt is an attempt to find and punish a particular group of people who are being blamed for something, often simply because of their opinions and not because they have actually done anything wrong. 0
- noun witch-hunt a rigorous campaign to round up or expose dissenters on the pretext of safeguarding the welfare of the public 0
- noun witch-hunt an investigation carried out ostensibly to uncover disloyalty, subversive political activity, etc., usually conducted with much publicity and often relying upon inconclusive evidence and capitalizing on public fear of unpopular opinions 0