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hounding

  • /ˈhaʊndɪŋ/

Rhymes with -aʊndɪŋ

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of hound

noun houndings

  1. Pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless. Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
  2. dated The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.

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@misc{hounding_2026,
  title = {hounding},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hounding},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}