6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. -- Pope. [1913 Webster] Your sins will dog you, pursue you. --Burroughs. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dogged \Dog"ged\, a. [Fron. {Dog}.] 1. Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] [1913 Webster] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. -- Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work; dogged pursuit. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: dog n 1: a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog barked all night" [syn: {domestic dog}, {Canis familiaris}] 2: a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman; "she got a reputation as a frump"; "she's a real dog" [syn: {frump}] 3: informal term for a man; "you lucky dog" 4: someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: {cad}, {bounder}, {blackguard}, {hound}, {heel}] 5: a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll [syn: {frank}, {frankfurter}, {hotdog}, {hot dog}, {wiener}, {wienerwurst}, {weenie}] 6: a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward [syn: {pawl}, {detent}, {click}] 7: metal supports for logs in a fireplace; "the andirons were too hot to touch" [syn: {andiron}, {firedog}, {dog-iron}] v : go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: {chase}, {chase after}, {trail}, {tail}, {tag}, {give chase}, {go after}, {track}] [also: {dogging}, {dogged}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: dogged adj : stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: {bulldog}, {dour}, {pertinacious}, {tenacious}, {unyielding}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: dogged See {dog} From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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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