Dog
Dog verb - To go after or on the track of.
Usage example: star athletes being dogged by fans when they're out in public
Trace
Trace verb - To go after or on the track of.
Usage example: police traced the burglar back to his apartment, where they discovered a ton of stolen loot
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Middleton's dress; the dog runs off, sniffing any trace it can find, until it tracks down to the real murderer: Zoe Havering herself.
Source: Series / Poirot -
Shortly after, his game crashes and his dog was gone without a trace.
Source: Lets Play / Over The Gun - Imperial players also had this reaction to having to put Revan himself down like a rabid dog after Revan went insane and started planning genocide against anyone with a trace of Sith species ancestry.
Source: The Dreaded / Video Games
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Trace and Dog. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dog/trace
Dog & Trace. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dog/trace>.
Trace or Dog. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dog/trace.
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