dog

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

dogs

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

dog

past (v2)

dogged

past participle (v3)

dogged

present participle

dogging

3rd person singular

dogs

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A mammal of the family Canidae:

   • The dog barked all night long.
   • Entirely disregarding sex, Ch. Searchlight has a beautiful Cocker head, but as he is a dog, his head is too fine and far too much upon the bitchy order.
   • This includes the development of hyena-like bone crushers (Osteoborus and Borophagus), a large bone-crushing hunting dog (Aelurodon), and another borophagine frugivorous dog (Carpocyon).

2. 2.A person:

   • Come back and fight, you dogs!
   • DJ Paul is a dog; one you do not trust.
   • Then, with an ugly oath, “Get up, you dog!” and, drawing back his booted foot, he kicked Tarzan heavily in the side.

3. 3.A mechanical device or support:

   • The dogs were too hot to touch.
   • In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped.
   • Whenever possible, let the tree support the weight of the chainsaw. Pivot the saw, using the saw's dogs (spikes) as a fulcrum.

4. 4.The eighteenth Lenormand card.

   • I would sell this dog if it was taller.
   • Tom's dog is much bigger than Mary's dog.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To pursue with the intent to catch.

2. 2.To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

   • The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
   • Yet Google, which was founded in 1998, is dogged by the perception that its best days are behind it.
   • But this is not an Athletic that ever looks comfortable at the back – a criticism that has often dogged Marcelo Bielsa's sides.

3. 3.To fasten a hatch securely.

   • It is very important to dog down these hatches.

4. 4.To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

   • I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
   • Lightning [is a] burst of charged particles that lights up the sky and allows onlookers to see who's dogging in the bushes without using a flashlight.

Overall

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Uncommon

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Rare

Literature

Uncommon