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sue
English
Etymology
From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) ( > French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su?/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue, sew (etymology 2)
Verb
sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)
- (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
- (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
- (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
- (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.
- (obsolete, transitive) To court.
- (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III. iv:
- 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.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:sue.
Derived terms
- sue for peace
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- EUS, SEU, UEs, ues, use
References
Ewe
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su??/, /su?e?/
Adjective
sue
- small
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy/
- Homophones: su, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
- Rhymes: -y
Verb
sue
- inflection of suer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
- feminine singular past participle of savoir
Anagrams
- eus, use, usé
Italian
Etymology
From Latin suae.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: su?e
Adjective
sue
- his, her, its; plural of sua
Japanese
Romanization
sue
- R?maji transcription of ??
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?su.e/, [?s?u?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?su.e/, [?su??]
Verb
sue
- second-person singular present active imperative of su?
Noun
sue
- ablative singular of s?s
Middle English
Noun
sue
- Alternative form of sowe
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: su?e
Verb
sue
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of suar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suar
Tarantino
Pronoun
sue m (possessive, feminine soje)
- his
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sux
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Shortening.
Noun
sux (uncountable)
- (informal, organic chemistry) Suxamethonium.
Etymology 2
Verb
sux
- (nonstandard, slang) Sucks (in the sense of being inferior or objectionable).
- 2007, Windows Vista magazine (Winter 2007)
- You can post updates about your life and your new friends will reply: "OMG that sux", "LOL you are teh funnay!"...
- 2007, Windows Vista magazine (Winter 2007)
Antonyms
- rox
Anagrams
- Xus
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