hound

1. 1.

   pursue or chase relentlessly

   “The hunters traced the deer into the woods”

   “the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him”

   Synonymshunttrace

   Broaderchase

   Narrowerferret

Other forms of hound

plural

hounds·

past tense

hounded·

present participle

hounding·

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 hound

What does hound mean?

hound means "any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hound?

hound has 1 syllable: hound. In IPA it is /ˈhaʊnd/.

What is another word for hound?

Close synonyms include hound dog, cad, bounder, blackguard, dog. 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 hound a common word?

hound is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hound?

3 words rhyme with hound. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.