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CHASED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is being chased

Example:

the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued

Synonyms:

chased; pursued

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chased" is a kind of...):

hunted person (a person who is hunted)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb chase

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 Context examples: 

Vell, ve chased ’im down ’Olburn, an’ down Fleet Street, an’ down Cheapside, an’ past the ’Change, and on all the vay to Voppin’ an’ we only catched ’im in the shippin’ office, vere ’e vas askin’ ’ow soon ’e could get a passage to voreign parts.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His anxiety that the fight should be brought off was in such contrast to the zeal with which he had chased us from his county, that my uncle could not help remarking upon it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)