Dictionary Entry
sue
sue is a 3-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 4 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
- 2transitive verb
To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
- 3transitive verb
To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
- 4transitive verb
To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
- 5transitive verb
To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
- 6intransitive verb
To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
- 7intransitive verb
To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
- 8intransitive verb
To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
- 9intransitive verb
To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
- 10noun
French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)
- 11verb
institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
"He was warned that the district attorney would process him"
"She actioned the company for discrimination"
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