dog
/dɒɡ/ verb C2- To pursue with the intent to catch.
- To follow in an annoying or harassing way. · The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
- To fasten a hatch securely. · It is very important to dog down these hatches.
- To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place. · I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
- To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. · A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.
- To criticize.
- To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
He/she/it dogs · Past dogged · Past participle dogged · -ing form dogging
Verb forms
- Base form
- dog
- He/she/it
- dogs
- Past
- dogged
- Past participle
- dogged
- -ing form
- dogging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But the Tin Woodman caught the dog in his arms and held him tight, while he called to the mice, “Come back!
So they picked up Toto and put the dog in Dorothy’s lap, and then they made a chair with their hands for the seat and their arms for the arms and carried the sleeping girl between them through the flowers.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a big beast like you, to bite a poor little dog!”
“He is my dog, Toto,” answered Dorothy.
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