2 meanings
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1 —as in:
dogged determination
Definition
continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties (persistent)- She worked with dogged determination.
dogged = continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties (persistent)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- High achieving students often do well in jobs because of their dogged effort.
- She has been a dogged defender of free speech.
- "My parents," Johnny repeated doggedly, "did they ask about me?"S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- He felt himself slipping into darkness and blinked hard, doggedly clinging to life, willing himself to not let go.Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear
- They had come from the right, and doggedly he swam in that direction,Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game
- The thought of Prim having to watch that keeps me doggedly inching my way toward the hideout.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- They bore on south in the days and weeks to follow. Solitary and dogged.Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
- I thought I would watch for the Count's return, and for a long time sat doggedly at the window.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
dogged = continuing effort despite difficulties
dogged = continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties (persistent)
doggedly = with continuing effort despite difficulties
doggedly = with determined effort
doggedly = with continuing effort despite difficulties
doggedly = with continuing effort despite difficulty
dogged = continuing despite difficulties
doggedly = with determined effort
dogged = determined and persistent
2 —as in:
dogged by problems
Definition
followed; or persistently annoyed- The expedition was dogged by one problem after the next.
dogged = persistently annoyed; or followed
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- She was dogged by one problem after the next.
- Well, just watch yourself, Potter, because I'll be dogging your footsteps in case you step out of line.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- I won't have her childhood disturbed by photographers dogging her at soccer games or hanging from trees at school picnics.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- I hurried on and he came after, dogging my footsteps in a suspicious silence.Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
- He sometimes thought that Svidrigailov was dogging his footsteps.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- A stranger then is still dogging us, just as a stranger dogged us in London.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- He did; and then it seemed to me that he was dogging us, but with what intent I could not for the life of me imagine.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Peeta and I eat together, and since Haymitch keeps dogging us about it, try to keep up a friendly conversation during the meals.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- I felt sure that I was followed in the street, and my every movement dogged by those to whom I would not condescend to turn and look.Hornung, E. W. -- Dead Men Tell No Tales
dogged = persistently annoyed; or followed
dogging = following
dogging = following; or persistently annoying
dogging = following
dogging = following
dogging = following
dogging = following
dogging = annoying (over and over again)