Word Direct Answers

What does "pursue" mean?

Pursue: To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law. The fame of ancient matrons you pursue. Dryden.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course.
  2. 3.To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue. " Insatiate to pursue vain war." Milton.
  3. 4.To follow as an example; to imitate.
  4. 5.To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account. The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have pursued me, they shall pursue you also. Wyclif (John xv. 20). See Follow.
  5. 6.To go in pursuit; to follow. The wicked flee when no man pursueth. Prov. xxviii.
  6. 7.Men hotly pursued after the objects of their ambition. Earle.
  7. 8.To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue. Note: [A Gallicism] I have, pursues Carneades, wondered chemists should not consider. Boyle.
  8. 9.(Law) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor. Burrill.

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