sue
verb
- initiate a legal challenge to pay perceived damages
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /suː/ / /sjuː/ / /sɪu̯/
name
Etymology: Clipping.
- A diminutive of the female given name Susan and of related female given names; popular as a middle name.
“For the last decade at least, the trend seems to be that more untraditional names are being chosen over the Bobs, the Toms, the Sues and the Marys.”
noun
Etymology: Clipping.
- Synonym of Mary Sue (“type of character in fiction”).
verb
Etymology: From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.
- To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.
“sue someone for selling a faulty product”
“I plan to sue you for everything you have.”
- To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
“The king of Bimsa sued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people.”
- To clean (the beak, etc.).
- To leave high and dry on shore.
“to sue a ship”
- To court.
- To follow.
“And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’”
“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.”