0 present participle of hound
1 to chase someone or to refuse to leave someone alone, especially because you want to get something from them:
There is not only a lack of sympathy, but an active programme of employers hounding people out of work if they have the illness.
We are no more hounding down the woman than you are hounding down the man.
Much has been said today about landlords hounding people out because of improvement grants.
I am not one of those who from the beginning of the war have been hounding at aliens as aliens.
Nor do we wish to conjure up a vision of an irate park keeper hounding the general public.
My daughter's education was ruined because of the hounding that she received at school.
There was no story, but that did not stop the newspaper and its reporters hounding my assistant, her husband and her relatives.
Some people may make £10 from social security while an army of inspectors is hounding women who are supposed to have been cohabiting.
