Word Meanings - PROSECUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot. To

Additional info about word: PROSECUTE

To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot. To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes. Milton. (more info) 1. To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim. I am beloved Hermia; Why should not I, then, prosecute my right Shak. 2. To seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROSECUTE)

• Chase Pursue
• hunt
• follow
• drive
• prosecute
• Seek
• Search
• inquire
• pursue
• solicit
• endeavor
• attempt
• strive
• investigate
• trace
• court
• affect

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROSECUTE)

• Repel
• abjure
• disaffect
• insult
• avoid
• repudiate
• Pretermit
• disregard
• abandon
• misinvestigate

Related words: (words related to PROSECUTE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• CHASE
  1. To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper. 2. To follow as if to catch; to pursue;
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• SOLICITUDE
  The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• ATTEMPTER
  1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. 2. An assailant; also, a temper.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• INSULTING
  Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv. Syn. -- Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent.
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• INQUIRER
  One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• SELF-REPELLING
  Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.
• PURCHASE
  purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, 1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could