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Antonyms for hound
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. hound

    Antonyms:
    liberate, discard, abandon, spare, house

    Synonyms:
    pursue, hunt, prosecute

Princeton's WordNet2.5 / 2 votes

  1. hound, hound dognoun

    any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears

    Synonyms:
    dog, bounder, cad, blackguard, hound dog, heel

  2. cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heelverb

    someone who is morally reprehensible

    "you dirty dog"

    Synonyms:
    heel, firedog, wienerwurst, weenie, frank, frankfurter, hotdog, cad, hound dog, detent, dog, pawl, bounder, wiener, frump, computer-aided design, click, hot dog, blackguard, dog-iron, domestic dog, andiron, leaper

  3. hound, hunt, traceverb

    pursue or chase relentlessly

    "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

    Synonyms:
    decipher, track down, run, line, describe, trace, hunt, delineate, retrace, hunt down, draw, follow

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. houndverb

    Synonyms:
    importune, harass

How to use hound in a sentence?

  1. Ken Burns:

    We say about Country Music,' Oh, Country Music's about pickup trucks and good ole boys and hound dogs and six packs of beer.' And that is a part, but a very small subgenre of Country Music.

  2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

    You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!

  3. Josephine Hart, "Sin":

    We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

  4. Nikita Khrushchev:

    If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military preparedness)

  5. Sir Thomas More:

    Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#297house
#6173spare
#14530abandon
#16452hound
#17665discard
#35984liberate

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