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: --
He thinks that they would have been hounded out of office.
The employers have been praised for their action, but the workmen have been hounded into gaol, or have had heavy penalties imposed upon them.
People receiving small incomes have been hounded in the last few months.
That man must be hounded out of the country that he desecrated.
Yet, to my knowledge, no one has been hounded or gaoled for that.
You will be hounded and harried by endless local authorities and, in fact, it will be untidy administration.
None of the no voters was hounded—quite the opposite.
Even so, our new leaders are being hounded and criticised by liberals in the media.
