'witch hunt' definitions:
Synonyms of 'witch hunt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amassing evidence,
- close inquiry,
- department of investigation,
- detection,
- detective work,
- exhaustive study,
- harassment,
- harrying,
- hearing,
- hounding,
- indagation,
- investigation,
- investigative bureau,
- legislative investigation,
- legwork,
- McCarthyism,
- oppression,
- perscrutation,
- persecution,
- probe,
- red-baiting,
- research,
- sifting,
- sleuthing,
- tormenting,
- victimization,
- witch-hunting