Game and Hounding

Game

Game noun - A competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize.

Hounding and game are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hounding" instead a noun "Game".

Nearby Words: gaming, gamed, gamesome, gamesmanship, gamer

Hounding

Hounding noun - The act of going after or in the tracks of another.

Game and hounding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Game" instead a noun "Hounding".

Nearby Words: hound, hounded

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Walking Spoiler He is the leader of the Oros Phlox Organization that keeps hounding you throughout the game, and until he actually appears halfway through the game we're led to believe that Due Flabellum (who turns out to be his wife) is the leader.
  • Visual Novel / Sunrider Older Than She Looks: Cosette is the leader of the pirate gang hounding the Sunrider throughout much of the game.
  • Mega Man Zero 2: The game's intro continues from the ending from the previous game where Zero wanders off and fights a lot of mooks hounding him for a whole year, and it didn't appear that he has gotten himself repaired or even rested once during this time.
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