Какво означава hound на английски?

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hound Значение & определение

0 a type of dog used for hunting
1 to chase someone or to refuse to leave someone alone, especially because you want to get something from them:
- The reporters wouldn't stop hounding her.
2 to chase someone or refuse to leave someone alone, esp. because you want to get something from that person:
- Socialists were hounded by the FBI in the 1950s.

A post-mortem examination established that the hounds had died of nicotine poisoning and that the stomach of one contained pigeon remains.
There is much alarmist rhetoric from those who want to retain hunting with hounds, but as each new study emerges, the arguments are knocked away.
I have made no specific assessment of the impact of a ban on hunting with hounds.
However, the committee added that the question of hunting with hounds should not be considered in isolation.
The first is that it purports to abolish hunting with hounds and yet it provides for the continued use of hounds.
While it remains a legal activity, hunting with hounds is permitted on the defence estate.
We shall put down his name to take hounds into his home.
What they want more than anything else is to live in peace and not to be hounded.