bird-dogged

verb

past tense of bird-dog
as in chased
to go after or on the track of suspecting infidelity, he hired a private detective to bird-dog his wife

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bird-dogged
  1. chased
  2. pursued
  3. tracked
  4. followed
  5. escorted
  6. accompanied
Verb
  • Quarterback Ryan Rakowski of Palos Verdes High was rolling right while being chased.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Hayden said 32-year-old Lemark Jaramillo had chased a 17-year-old boy into the restaurant and was trying to stab him in retaliation for a fight that happened moments before at a nearby Chipotle.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of chased
Verb
  • Those priorities overlap with issues Griffin and his investment firm have pursued in Tallahassee.
    — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The company has pursued efforts to recreate extinct species, including the dodo and woolly mammoth.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of pursued
Verb
  • Consumers’ expectations about the pace of future price hikes are closely tracked by the Federal Reserve.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Using a form of spectroscopy, the team then tracked changes in the electrons' energies over trillionths of a second.
    — Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of tracked
Verb
  • Her daughter, Jane Harnick, told the New York Times that her mother’s death followed a terminal cancer diagnosis.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Junior Leni Young followed that with a block to tie the score 14-14.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of followed
Verb
  • For five months, most of the 17 crew would remain confined to that space, no more than 50 feet long, seated, leaving only when escorted to the bathroom.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
  • There was a slight kerfuffle and Brand’s wife was escorted out around halfway through the defense’s questioning.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of escorted
Verb
  • Open for breakfast, Sunday brunch (a buffet sometimes accompanied by live jazz), lunch, and dinner, The Bistro serves American classics, with a natural emphasis on seafood.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Twenty years later, Elizabeth (Roden) is spending Christmas at Biltmore and this time is accompanied by James (Trevena), a suitor her Aunt Maysilee (MacDowell) is keen for her to wed.
    — Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of accompanied
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“Bird-dogged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bird-dogged. Accessed 30 Oct. 2026.

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