Chivying [verb]
Definition of Chivying:
chase, follow
Synonyms of Chivying:
● Seek
● Bait
● Fish
● Haunt
● Tag
● Hound
● Badger
● Trace
● Tail
● Persist
● Persevere
● Accompany
● Attend
● Track
● Trail
● Plague
● Shadow
● Bug
● Ride
● Hunt
● Dog
● Harass
● Stalk
● Harry
● Oppress
● Run down
● Bird-dog
● Go after
● Camp on the doorstep of
● Give chase
● Hunt down
● Move behind
● Nose around
● Play catch up
● Poke around
● Prowl after
● Run after
● Scout out
● Search for
● Search high heaven
● Search out
● Take out after
● Track down
Opposite/Antonyms of Chivying:
● Support
● Let go
● Help
● Neglect
● Be lazy
● Stop
● Quit
● Leave
● Give up
● Leave alone
● Run away
● Discontinue
● Shun
● Eschew
● Retreat
● Assist
● Aid
● Ignore
Sentence/Example of Chivying:
I should like to have seen one of 'em outside Chivy Wood to-day.
They are not in a hurry, nor "chivy" over their work either; the tides rise and fall slowly, and they work in correspondence.
After your soda and brandy take a good chivy in the open air, and you'll be all right by dinner-time.
I let the first class off easily, but the second I chivy through a whole year.
They'd 'ave nobody to chivy 'em when they come to the throne, or returned from the wars.
I thought: "In a day or two I shall get to like her, and then I shan't be able to chivy her."
The objective of the R. Sussex on the left was the enemy's trenches along the Chivy road.
It was an eternal game of chivy or hide-and-seek, each person being by turn the hunter and the hunted.
Every year I have some seven such hopefuls whom, to express it in the students' slang, I "chivy" or "floor."