Hounded vs Surrounded - What's the difference?
hounded | surrounded |
(hound)
A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. (hunt hound, hunting hound, hunting dog, hunter)
(by extension) Someone who seeks something.
* 1996 , Marc Parent, Turning Stones , , ISBN 0151002045, page 93,
* 2004 , , ISBN 0743486196, page 483,
(by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of receptive females.
* 1915 , , volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in ''Harper's Monthly Magazine , volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,
A despicable person.
* Shakespeare
* Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me
A houndfish.
(nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
In more recent times, hound' has been replaced by ' dog but the sense remains the same.
To persistently harass.
(surround)
(label) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
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(label) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
(British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
* 1972 , 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283:
As verbs the difference between hounded and surrounded
is that hounded is (hound) while surrounded is (surround).hounded
English
Verb
(head)hound
English
Noun
(en noun)- On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.
- I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound , because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.
- "Are you alone, Goodson?
- "She had a good many successors, John."
- "You are such a hound , in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."
- Boy! false hound !
- 'You blackmailing hound ,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.
Derived terms
* Afghan hound * autograph hound * bloodhound * clean as a hound's tooth * gazehound * greyhound, grayhound * hold with the hare and run with the hounds * hound dog * houndish * houndlike * houndly * houndstooth * houndy * publicity hound * rock hound * sighthound * wolfhound * boar hound * hell hound * war hound * hounds of warVerb
(en verb)- He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
Anagrams
*surrounded
English
Verb
(head)surround
English
Verb
(en verb)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
- and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
- (Fuller)
Synonyms
*Noun
(en noun)- He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight.
- It swept around the room, picking out a desk, a telephone, a wall of bookshelves, and a deep armchair, and finally settled on a handsome fireplace with a large surround of red brick.