Dogged
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dog \Dog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dogged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dogging}.]
To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or
indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if
by dogs; to hound with importunity.
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I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. -- Pope.
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Your sins will dog you, pursue you. --Burroughs.
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Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly
supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to,
dogging him from place to place, till they even extort
an answer to their rude requests. -- South.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dogged \Dog"ged\, a. [Fron. {Dog}.]
1. Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.]
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The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. -- Sir
W. Scott.
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2. Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent;
as, dogged resolution; dogged work; dogged pursuit.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "dogged":
adamant, assiduous, badgered, baited, balking, balky, bedeviled,
beset, bigoted, bugged, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded,
bullyragged, case-hardened, chivied, constant, continuing, deviled,
diligent, dogmatic, enduring, faithful, fanatic, fretted, harassed,
hardheaded, harried, haunted, headstrong, heckled, hectored,
hounded, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable,
industrious, inexorable, insistent, intolerant, invincible,
lasting, loyal, mulish, needled, never-tiring, nipped at, obdurate,
obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, patient, patient as Job,
permanent, persecuted, perseverant, persevering, persistent,
persisting, pertinacious, pestered, picked on, pigheaded, plagued,
plodding, plugging, preoccupied, ragged, rapt, relentless,
resolute, restive, rigid, sedulous, self-willed, set,
single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast, steady,
stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen,
teased, tenacious, tireless, tormented, unabating, unbending,
unconquerable, uncooperative, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping,
unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting,
uninterrupted, unnodding, unregenerate, unrelaxing, unrelenting,
unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering,
unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vexed,
weariless, willful, worried, worried sick, worried stiff
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