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PURSUED
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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:
Hypernyms ("pursued" is a kind of...):
hunted person (a person who is hunted)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Followed with enmity as if to harm
Example:
running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes
Classified under:
Participle:
pursue (follow in or as if in pursuit)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb pursue
Context examples:
Inhibitors of the EGF receptor are being pursued as potential cancer therapies and EGF may stimulate wound healing.
(EGF Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Away walked Catherine in great agitation, as fast as the crowd would permit her, fearful of being pursued, yet determined to persevere.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He took no heed of the course he pursued, so long as that course led him through the swale bottoms.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when you call to-morrow.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He seized his bicycle, pursued the lad, and in pursuing him met his death.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though it were a tangible thing, barking softly or defiantly, as the mood might dictate.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I moved from hiding-place to hiding-place, always pursued, or so it seemed to me, by these terrifying missiles.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“You know I never approved of it,” pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
So that, thinking I had seen enough, full of contempt and aversion, I got up, and pursued the beaten road, hoping it might direct me to the cabin of some Indian.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They began to flee, but the youth pursued, and never stopped, until there was not a single man left.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
