0 past simple and past participle of hound
1 to chase someone or to refuse to leave someone alone, especially because you want to get something from them:
The security services hounded members of the recalcitrant syndicates.
Anarchists were hounded and their organisations wiped out in the early twentieth century.
His fall was equally dramatic; he ended his days a drugged-out paranoid, hounded by the authorities and driven into penury.
In due course, the founding fathers' favourite periods were hounded as contaminated by old-fashioned approaches and resistant to newer ones.
He is a man who has left teaching, having been hounded out after unfair allegations of impropriety with a male pupil.
The couple is hounded and caught.
Even the major airlines are doing the same, hounded by the competition.
Even so, our new leaders are being hounded and criticised by liberals in the media.
