Synonyms for hound
haʊndhound

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1. hound

   Synonyms:
   pursue, hunt, prosecute

   Antonyms:
   liberate, discard, abandon, spare, house

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1. hound, hound dognoun

   any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears

   Synonyms:
   dog, bounder, cad, blackguard, hound dog, heel

2. cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heelverb

   someone who is morally reprehensible

   "you dirty dog"

   Synonyms:
   heel, firedog, wienerwurst, weenie, frank, frankfurter, hotdog, cad, hound dog, detent, dog, pawl, bounder, wiener, frump, computer-aided design, click, hot dog, blackguard, dog-iron, domestic dog, andiron, leaper

3. hound, hunt, traceverb

   pursue or chase relentlessly

   "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

   Synonyms:
   decipher, track down, run, line, describe, trace, hunt, delineate, retrace, hunt down, draw, follow

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1. houndnoun

   Synonyms:
   dog (for the chase), hunting dog

2. houndverb

   Synonyms:
   incite, urge, spur, set on, urge on, spur on

3. houndverb

   Synonyms:
   hunt, pursue, chase

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1. houndverb

   Synonyms:
   importune, harass

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1. List of paraphrases for "hound":

   pedigree, dog

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How to use hound in a sentence?

1. Nikita Khrushchev:

   If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military preparedness)

2. Sir Thomas More:

   Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

3. Vivek Katju:

   The Pakistan army has adhered to its longstanding doctrine of distinguishing between terrorist groups that are engaged in hostilities with it and those who are willing to act as its proxies whether in Afghanistan and India, pakistan ... cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hound.

4. Bob Seger:

   Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

5. Hound Labs ':

   We aren't measuring impairment, we're measuring THC in breath where The Hound device lasts a very short period of time, providing objective data about THC in breath to law enforcement and employers to use in conjunction with other information they have gathered.