dogging

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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

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