MEANING
1. To pursue someone with relentless attention or harassment.
2. A dog bred or used for hunting, especially by tracking scent.
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Words that belong together
- hound a witness
- hound someone into hiding
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The callers hounded her until she stopped answering.
He hounded the witness through every town on the route.
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Word forms
- Base
- hound
- Past tense
- hounded
- Past participle
- hounded
- Present participle
- hounding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- hound
- Present continuous
- am/is/are hounding
- Present perfect
- have/has hounded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been hounding
- Past
- hounded
- Past continuous
- was/were hounding
- Past perfect
- had hounded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been hounding
- Future
- will hound
- Future continuous
- will be hounding
- Future perfect
- will have hounded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been hounding
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: hound; hounds; hounded; hounded; hounding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: hounds.
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