The phrase "hounded down" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe an event in which one person or group aggressively pursues another in order to catch them or exhaust them. Example: The thief was hounded down by the police, and he was eventually arrested.
War criminals would be hounded down and tried in international courts.
1937 Russian Economist Slain in Bois Apparently hounded down by invisible political enemies, Dmitiri Navachine, a Russian economist of repute and a close friend of prominent French political and journalistic leaders, was found murdered near the Auteuil racetrack, in the Bois de Boulogne, yesterday morning.
Everybody Wants To Run The World Tears for Fears/May 1986 Hounded down by Sir Bob after they failed to turn up for Band Aid, the band offered up this musical gem, a re-jigged version of "Everybody Wants To Rule The World", for Sport Aid.
Most Americans know the story of the whoopers, hunted and hounded down to just 16 birds in the 1940s and then brought back from the very brink of extinction, with conservationists' help, to a current, precarious population of a few hundred.
"Those who planned and perpetrated this act of murder must be hounded down and dealt with by the full rigours of the law".
This is good since otherwise the best students would be hounded down by 100s of professors (and vice versa).
Yet that same technology, that same enablement, can be used to hound down the "dissenters" with an equal if not greater amount of efficiency and power -- greater because the consequences can be so much more serious.
Would it be rude to hound her down on her cellphone?
Perhaps they will munch on him, hounding him down as he runs for his car, disembowelling him in the parking lot and leaving Wimbledon without its reigning champion.
Following Lebedinsky, Barnes insinuates that Shostakovich, worn down by being hounded, began drinking heavily.
