verb
- Go after with the intent to catch.
- usage: "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"
- synonyms: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track
adjective
- Stubbornly unyielding.
- usage: "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it- T. S. Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
- synonyms: dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
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