"bedog" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- + dog.",
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          "ref": "1878, EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, RECORDS OF SHELLEY, BYRON, AND THE AUTHOR",
          "text": "That envy, malice, and hatred bedogged his steps, snarling and snapping, is true, but neither his power nor popularity had declined, nor did he think so.",
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          "ref": "1892, The Humourist",
          "text": "Bedogging this poor singer, that bebitching, Uniting too a host of damning “Pshas,” And reaped a plenteous harvest of applause; …"
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Rollo May, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence",
          "text": "But the girls at high school had always called him the \"little shrimp\" (which he had been), and this still bedogged him.",
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          "ref": "2007, Chi-thinking: Chiasmus and Cognition",
          "text": "… to discover they have bedogged us and were there, at our backs, all along. When catching hold of us again, which is really our re-registering of their vigilance, these contrarians are up and at the bullying they excel in."
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          "ref": "2010, Doreen Alexander Child, Charlie Kaufman: Confessions of an Original Mind",
          "text": "Just as Scottie has a haunted quality, Kaufman's Joel Barish is bedogged by the past as well.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, H Allen Smith, Lost in the Horse Latitudes",
          "text": "So they went to sleep like a pair of chain gangers, and bedogged if during the night Rose didn't get up and start for the bathroom, and down she went.",
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        "to follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully"
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        "(transitive) to follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully"
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          "text": "Bedogging this poor singer, that bebitching, Uniting too a host of damning “Pshas,” And reaped a plenteous harvest of applause; …"
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          "ref": "1998, Rollo May, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence",
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        },
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        },
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