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prosecute |
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prosecute Verb [-cuting, -cuted] 1. to bring a criminal charge against (someone) 2. to continue to do (something): the business of prosecuting a cold war through propaganda 3. a. to seek redress by legal proceedings b. to institute or conduct a prosecution [Latin prosequi to follow] prosecutor n
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prosecute verb 1. Law take someone to court, try, sue, summon, indict, do (slang) arraign, seek redress, put someone on trial, litigate, bring suit against, bring someone to trial, put someone in the dock, bring action against, prefer charges against verb 2. conduct, continue, manage, direct, pursue, work at, carry on, practise, engage in, discharge, persist, see through, follow through, persevere, carry through Translations"trespassers will be prosecuted" (LAW) → "se procesará a los intrusos" |
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| It was about the hour of noon, therefore, when De Bracy, for whose advantage the expedition had been first planned, appeared to prosecute his views upon the hand and possessions of the Lady Rowena. At others he will with his own hands tear down some other man's gate and declare that a path has existed there from time immemorial, defying the owner to prosecute him for trespass. She had lately remitted the trespass of a stage-coachman, who had overturned her post-chaise into a ditch; nay, she had even broken the law, in refusing to prosecute a highwayman who had robbed her, not only of a sum of money, but of her ear-rings; at the same time d--ning her, and saying, "Such handsome b--s as you don't want jewels to set them off, and be d--n'd to you. |
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