hound
/haʊnd/ verb C2- To persistently harass doggedly. · He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
He/she/it hounds · Past hounded · Past participle hounded · -ing form hounding
Verb forms
- Base form
- hound
- He/she/it
- hounds
- Past
- hounded
- Past participle
- hounded
- -ing form
- hounding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house.
The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, “It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions.” The Housedog replied, “Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others.”
She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger.
A Fox passing by asked him why he thus sharpened his teeth when there was no danger threatening from either huntsman or hound.
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