verb
definition
To persistently harass.
example
He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
definition
To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.
noun
definition
Pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.
definition
The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.
Examples of hounding in a Sentence
She's been hounding me for an answer.
Additionally, hounding her is a gross disservice to law enforcement because her help will cease if someone discovers her identity.
What about Fate, who'd been hounding him for weeks?
It ought to be something of an annoyance to him if everybody keeps hounding him to do something he so obviously don't want to do.
But she was out the door, ignoring his hounding questions as he followed her.
At an early stage he came to the conclusion that Dreyfus was the innocent victim of a nefarious conspiracy, and on the 13th of January 1898, with his usual intrepidity, he published in the Aurore newspaper, in the form of a letter beginning with the words J'accuse, a terrible denunciation of all those who had had a hand in hounding down that unfortunate officer.
In dark winter mornings, or in short winter afternoons, I sometimes heard a pack of hounds threading all the woods with hounding cry and yelp, unable to resist the instinct of the chase, and the note of the hunting-horn at intervals, proving that man was in the rear.
Late in the afternoon, as he was resting in the thick woods south of Walden, he heard the voice of the hounds far over toward Fair Haven still pursuing the fox; and on they came, their hounding cry which made all the woods ring sounding nearer and nearer, now from Well Meadow, now from the Baker Farm.
At length the old hound burst into view with muzzle to the ground, and snapping the air as if possessed, and ran directly to the rock; but, spying the dead fox, she suddenly ceased her hounding as if struck dumb with amazement, and walked round and round him in silence; and one by one her pups arrived, and, like their mother, were sobered into silence by the mystery.