sue
see also: Sue
Etymology

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al.

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /suː/, /sjuː/, /sɪu̯/
Verb

sue (sues, present participle suing; simple past and past participle sued)

  1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
    sue someone for selling a faulty product
    I plan to sue you for everything you have.
  2. (ambitransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
  4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.
    to sue a ship
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
    • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC ↗; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC ↗:
      And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
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    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
      though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
Translations
Sue
Proper noun
  1. A female given name and of related female given names; popular as a middle name.
Translations Noun

sue (plural sues)

  1. (informal) Synonym of Mary Sue



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