hound
verb/haʊnd/
/haʊnd/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they hound | /haʊnd/ /haʊnd/ |
| he / she / it hounds | /haʊndz/ /haʊndz/ |
| past simple hounded | /ˈhaʊndɪd/ /ˈhaʊndɪd/ |
| past participle hounded | /ˈhaʊndɪd/ /ˈhaʊndɪd/ |
| -ing form hounding | /ˈhaʊndɪŋ/ /ˈhaʊndɪŋ/ |
- hound somebody to keep following somebody and not leave them alone, especially in order to get something from them or ask them questions synonym harass
- They were hounded day and night by the press.
- The travellers say the police are hounding them.
Extra Examples- His family accused the media of hounding him to death.
- She was continually hounded by her fans.
- I'm constantly being hounded for autographs.
- The star claims he is being hounded by an obsessed fan.
Word OriginOld English hund (in the general sense ‘dog’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hond and German Hund, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek kuōn, kun- ‘dog’.Want to learn more?
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