hounded

verb

Definition of houndednext
past tense of hound
1
as in chased
to go after or on the track of after the scandal came to light, the politician was hounded by reporters night and day

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2
as in urged
to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders kept hounding his mother to let him drive her car until she gave in

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hounded
  1. urged
  2. pursued
  3. dogged
  4. followed
  5. begged
  6. bothered
  7. harassed
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  • Earlier in December, Pope Benedict XV urged a holiday truce.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Customers who have purchased this product are being urged to immediately return it to their nearest Lidl store for a full refund—with or without a receipt.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of urged
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  • Agatha is also being pursued by her ex, Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), a powerful green witch, as well as the Salem Seven, vengeful wraiths of Agatha's first coven.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This cultural shift has also found its way into male hip-hop, with artists like Jay-Z, who has faced a series of public allegations, and Drake, who recently pursued legal action, partly in response to the aftermath from Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of pursued
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  • As the year ends, Netanyahu is spending some of it in a courtroom to fight corruption charges that have dogged him since 2019.
    NPR, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The milestones may sound straightforward, yet advances on even these objectives may prove challenging, as controversy and disagreement have dogged the institution from its infancy.
    Carole V. Bell, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of dogged
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  • Jake followed those rumors with a post suggesting he’d been approached with the concept.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Ravinia Festival, which Ozawa led as music director from 1964 to 1968, was his first big break; posts at the Toronto, San Francisco, and Boston symphonies followed.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of followed
Verb
  • On October 4, a letter signed by 42 different companies and nonprofits—from the American Mountain Guides Association, to Montana’s Bridger Bowl Ski Area, to Colorado Mountain Club—begged Moore to allow the avalanche centers to remain fully-staffed.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024
  • According to Salazar-Hinojosa, her husband begged immigration authorities to please not take his family away from him.
    Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of begged
Verb
  • The technology behind an LLM is sufficiently advanced because the people using it have not bothered to understand it.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Dec. 2024
  • In fact, if you can’t be bothered even to reach for the remote to select this new button, the latest firmware update will also automatically start playing the next episode after a countdown.
    John Archer, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of bothered
Verb
  • The department also said that pro-Palestinian students complained that they had been harassed by other students and members of the public.
    Orlando Mayorquín, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • He's also been harassed by fellow inmates.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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