sue
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From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.
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sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)
- (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
- sue someone for selling a faulty product
- I plan to sue you for everything you have.
- 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, “W. Horgan”, in History of West Australia:
- He was sued by the late Geo. Walpole Leake for slander, and after two trials, occupying eight days, he was mulcted in heavy damages and costs.
- (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
- (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
- (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.[1]
- to sue a ship
- (obsolete, transitive) To court.
- (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
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- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
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to file a legal action
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- ^ 1841, Richard Henry Dana Jr., The Seaman's Friend
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- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of suar:
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.e/, [ˈs̠uɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.e/, [ˈsuːe]
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- Alternative form of sowe
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- Hyphenation: su‧e
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- inflection of suar:
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sue m (possessive, feminine soje)