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English

Etymology 1

From the verb to dog.

Pronunciation

: IPA: /dɒgd/,
: , IPA: /dɑgd/,

Verb

dogged

* 1903: w:Samuel Butler|Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh
*: At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.

Etymology 2

From , characteristics similar to that of a dog.

Pronunciation

: , IPA: /ˈdɒgɪd/,
: , IPA: /ˈdɑgɪd/,

Adjective

Stubbornly persevering, steadfast.
* 1900: w:Jack London|Jack London, The Son of the Wolf
*: Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
* 2004: w: Chris Wallace (journalist)|Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
*: It had taken nine years from the evening that w:Harry Truman|Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

Synonyms

Translations

Finnish: sinnikäs, hellittämätön, peräänantamaton

Derived terms

Category:English heteronyms

bg:dogged fr:dogged io:dogged hu:dogged pt:dogged te:dogged vi:dogged zh:dogged

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet 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]

WordNet 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]

WordNet dogged
See dog

Moby Dictionary
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