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Harassing vs Hounding - What's the difference?

harassing | hounding |

As verbs the difference between harassing and hounding

is that harassing is present participle of lang=en while hounding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between harassing and hounding

is that harassing is harassment while hounding is pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.

harassing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • harassment
  • * 1826 , Charles Swan, Journal of a voyage up the Mediterranean
    • Sometimes we observe these wretched peasants, driven to despair by the harassings of the Boyars, commit the useless imprudence of going to the capital, and, under the windows of the prince, with loud cries, require him to hear their claims.

    hounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.
  • *2011 , "Embraceable you", The Economist , 30 Jul 2011:
  • *:Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
  • (nautical) The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.
    • (Webster 1913)