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Synonyms for hound

32 synonyms
3 meanings

verb
noun

Most common

dog chase badger harass

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Dog — to persistently harass doggedly

dog, harass, badger, chase, fiend, bug, pester, devil informal, harry, bait, prosecute, persecute, pursue, plague, bedevil, beset, chevy, bullyrag, torment, annoy, hector, rile

2. Hunt

Other

urge on, spur on, chiack UK AU NZ

Noun

1. Cad

cad, heel, blackguard, bounder

Other

cur dated

Definitions

v. 1
To persistently harass doggedly.
He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
n. 1
A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
The hounds were baying a fox.

Related words

Word family: houndfish houndly
Phrases: hound's tongue painted hound scent hound basset hound bitch hound hound dog hound of hell powder hound

Forms

Plural: hounds → cads, heels, blackguards, bounders…
Past participle: hounded
e.g. hounded → dogged, harassed, badgered, chased…

Example sentences

dog I used a photo of my dog for my desktop wallpaper.
chase Sami tried to chase after Layla and talked to her.
badger The sultan does not like the badger and the badger the sultan.
harass Skura wasn't the only girl that Yanni would harass.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
hound		rising
dog		rising
chase		rising
badger		rising
harass		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: dog¹, bug¹, cad¹, cur¹
4 letters: hunt¹, bait¹, heel¹, rile¹
5 letters: harry², chase¹, devil², trace¹, chevy², annoy², fiend¹, beset²
6 letters: pursue², plague¹, hector², badger², harass², pester², chiack
7 letters: torment², bedevil³, bounder²
8 letters: bullyrag
9 letters: prosecute³, persecute³
10 letters: blackguard

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (harry² = 2 syllables).