dogging

1. 1.

   relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit

   “impossible to escape the dogging fears”

   Synonymspersisting

   Similarcontinuous

Other forms of dogging

comparative

dogginger·

superlative

doggingest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dogging

What does dogging mean?

dogging means "relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit".

How many syllables are in dogging?

dogging has 2 syllables: dog-ging. The stress falls on "dog". In IPA it is /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/.

What is another word for dogging?

Close synonyms include persisting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dogging a common word?

dogging is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.