pursue verb [T] (TRY TO DO) ... If you pursue a plan, activity, or situation, you try to do it or achieve it, usually over a long period of time: He decided to ...

6 дней назад · The meaning of PURSUE is to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, or defeat. How to use pursue in a sentence.

to follow or chase someone or something, especially in order to catch them. She left the theater, hotly pursued by the press.

Pursue originally meant "to follow with hostile intent," from a Latin root word, prosequi, "follow, accompany, follow after, or follow up." Today, when you ...

(pəʳsjuː , -suː ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense pursues , pursuing , past tense, past participle pursued. 1. verb. Pursue · Pursue a career · Pursue a case · Pursue a suspect

Etymology. From Middle English pursuen, from Anglo-Norman pursure, poursuire etc., from Latin prōsequor (though influenced by persequor). Doublet of prosecute.

pursue is a borrowing from French. Etymons: French pursure, pursivre, porsure, porsivre.

to continue doing an activity or trying to achieve something over a long period of time → pursuit She plans to pursue a career in politics.

11 февр. 2021 г. · late 13c., "follow with hostile intent, follow with a view of overtaking," from Anglo-French pursuer and directly from Old French poursuir.