Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relentless and persistent in following or pursuing: Describes something that follows or pursues someone or something in a constant, unyielding, and often troublesome manner.
   • Persistently troubling or haunting: Describes a thought, feeling, or problem that is difficult to escape or get rid of.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The detective kept up his dogging pursuit of the suspect.
  • She couldn't shake the dogging feeling that she had forgotten something important.
  • The dogging pain in his knee made it hard to walk.

Advanced Usage

• "Dogging fears/doubts": Fears or doubts that are persistent and inescapable.
  • The dogging doubts about his decision kept him awake at night.
• "Dogging footsteps": Footsteps that follow someone relentlessly.
  • He heard the dogging footsteps echoing in the empty alley.

Variants and Related Words

• Dog (verb): To follow (someone or something) closely and persistently.
  • The reporter dogged the celebrity for a comment.
• Dogged (adjective): Having or showing tenacity and grim persistence. (Note: "Dogged" is more commonly used than "dogging" as an adjective to describe a person's determined character, e.g., .)

Synonyms

• Persistent: Continuing firmly in a course of action despite difficulty.
• Relentless: Unceasingly intense.
• Haunting: Poignant and difficult to ignore or forget.

Related Phrases

• To dog someone's footsteps/heels: To follow someone very closely and persistently.
  • Misfortune seemed to dog his footsteps throughout his life.

Adjective

1. relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit
   • impossible to escape the dogging fears