hound

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: A dog bred for hunting, often with a strong sense of smell.

• The hound followed the smell.
• A pack of hounds ran across the field.
• Their old hound slept beside the fire.

Eş anlamlılar: hunting dog

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: pack of hounds, hunting hound

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: To keep bothering or following someone, making their life difficult.

• Reporters hounded her all week.
• He keeps hounding me for an answer.
• The family was hounded by photographers outside their home.

Nasıl kullanılır: hound someone for something (The children hounded him for money.); hound someone into doing something (They hounded her into signing the agreement.); hound someone out of something (The repeated threats hounded him out of his home.)

Eş anlamlılar: harass, pester, badger

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: hound someone for something, hound someone out