Meaning

simple past and past participle of dog.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of dog
2. stubbornly persevering, steadfast
3. (dated, slang) very

Example Sentences

At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.

They will replace the four five-car Class 180 Adelantes [...] that have been dogged by poor reliability.

Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.

Rushing out to the point above the reef, we watched the conflict between canoe and sea. When the man reached the gas boat, the screams of the boy stopped. With great risk they loaded the canoe till she began to take water. The boy bailed furiously. The long dogged pull of the man's oars challenged death inch by inch, wave by wave.

It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

Using the latest technology, and with the dogged determination of our testing and tracing scheme, we've successfully identified the person in question.

"I'm afraid I've given him a heap of trouble. You see," he explained, looking at Paul critically, "I never thought of eating before I left town, and one gets so dogged hungry, you know walking. I say it is a long tramp, isn't it?"

Word Forms

• more dogged
• most dogged

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When Should You Use Dogged?

Use dogged when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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