Hound and Spy

Hound

Hound noun - A domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes.

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Spy and hound are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spy" instead a noun "Hound".

Nearby Words: hounded, hounding

Spy noun - A person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country.

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Hound and spy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hound" instead a noun "Spy".

Nearby Word: spying

old	old hound	old spy
certain	certain hound	certain spy
faithful	faithful hound	faithful spy
real	real hound	real spy
Other adjectives: evil, bad, black, young, trained, new, Nazi, titular, competent, english.

hound victims

spy victims

Perhaps the US military figured that a dog—albiet an egotistical, snickering glory-hound—would be an ideal spy to bungle Vulture Squadron's counter-intelligence.

Source: Alternative Character Interpretation / Western Animation
There was a legendary master spy almost two hundred years before the story starts, named Gervas Klarenfeld, the Hound.

Source: Literature / Dead West
The confusion is fueled further by his name, which he shares with a long dead legendary (aristocrat) master spy, the Hound of Maria Theresa, and by his Heroic Build and Charles Atlas Superpower.

Source: Literature / Dead West

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