to hound
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6.1
- verb
- /haʊnd/
:
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- Then it began to hound me, to pursue me more and more, to impose itself upon me.
And for a fucking year, I'm hounding Jeff, hounding Jeff.
- And for a fucking year, I'm hounding Jeff, hounding Jeff.
- But then the crew were hounded, chased, chased by them.
- He went over there and he just got hounded by fans.
- But once you achieve the thing, then it's your turn to be hounded.
- I have literally hounded Mac to have this every single day of this year.
- You know how the the British media can be quite hounding and I imagine his life wasn't made very easily.
- Now the theory is that basically Harry a wants to leave the limelight because Megan is being hounded much like his mother was.
- So then I can hound my kid the rest of his or her life and say where is my payoff?
- But I think this kind of ruthless pursuit of people, you know, hounding them with paparazzi, hounding their children, I don't, I don't see the point.
- The principals hound the teachers to use the same digital grade book and keep it up to date and they don't like it and it's really hard to compel them to.
- I've been hounded by you guys hounded and just absolutely.
- Nobody, he was hounding like all these people who thought they could ball.
- CVS and how much they like hound you down on it now.
Examples
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As I spoke, I began to be questioned and hounded by many of the people in the class.
Fiction book (1994) -
Why do you insist on hounding me about this?
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Or is it just your mission to hound me wherever l go?
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and she is persistent. I mean, she will track you down and she will hound you until you say yes.
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There is an innocent man being hounded and you need to do something.
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My creative writing students have been hounding me about starting a webzine to showcase their work.
Academic text (2005) -
His notes were protested, and he was constantly hounded by Gardner to settle his claims.
Academic text (2009) -
Why do you insist on hounding me about this issue?
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I got reporters hounding me outside my house for an interview.
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The paparazzi have been hounding the celebrity wherever she goes.
Synonyms
322
1.0
To chase someone or something without stopping to catch them
41
4.4
Attack an enemy again and again in small ways to wear them down
39
4.7
To annoy someone by asking them the same thing many times
34
3.2
To annoy someone by asking for things again and again
23
6.8
To follow someone closely and keep causing them trouble
12
8.4
Annoy or disturb someone repeatedly
12
7.8
To surround a person with many requests and questions
3
7.6
To bother someone again and again so they feel upset or tired
2
8.6
To trouble or annoy someone again and again
1
7.9
Continuing for a long time and not going away
Followed by someone trying to catch or harm you
To frighten or shout at someone to make them do what you want
Annoyed by repeated small questions and interruptions
A person who annoys another person by asking again and again
To annoy someone by asking or reminding them again and again
To annoy someone again and again with small problems
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
1
8.0
A large hunting dog from the United States with a striped brown coat that hunts boar and bears
- UK
A large British dog breed with long hanging ears and thick rough fur used for hunting otters
How Persistent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hound as a verb comes from that same hunting dog idea: to 'hound' someone is to 'chase' them like a pack of hunting dogs chases an animal. That's why hound now means to pursue or harass someone without stopping.