dogged

4 definitions found

dogged - 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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  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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dogged - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dogged
      adj 1: 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: dogged, dour, persistent,
             pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding]

dogged - 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