Crossword-Solution: PURSUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pursue | v. t. | To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare. |
| Pursue | v. t. | To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law. |
| Pursue | v. t. | To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course. |
| Pursue | v. t. | To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue. |
| Pursue | v. t. | To follow as an example; to imitate. |
| Pursue | v. t. | To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account. |
| Pursue | v. i. | To go in pursuit; to follow. |
| Pursue | v. i. | To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue. |
| Pursue | v. i. | To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor. |
We have 79 clues for the answer “PURSUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| to chase or follow with determination | 1 answer |
| Follow (a career) | 1 answer |
| Follow doggedly | 1 answer |
| Play catch-up | 1 answer |
| Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life | 1 answer |
| Follow up on | 2 answers |
| Chase after | 2 answers |
| Follow up. | 2 answers |
| Seek (after). | 5 answers |
| Try to attain | 5 answers |
| work at | 6 answers |
| follow-up | 6 answers |
| Try to catch | 7 answers |
| lust for | 8 answers |
| wish otherwise | 8 answers |
| Run after | 8 answers |
| apply oneself | 9 answers |
| hanker after | 9 answers |
| MAKE after | 10 answers |
| follow-through | 10 answers |
| promise oneself | 10 answers |
| FALL in love | 10 answers |
| Strive (for) | 11 answers |
| CARRY FURTHER OR ADVANCE | 11 answers |
| Itch (for) | 12 answers |
| Must-have | 13 answers |
| Thirst (for) | 13 answers |
| dream of | 14 answers |
| Must have | 15 answers |
| Wish (for) | 18 answers |
| Ply | 18 answers |
| AIM (FOR) | 19 answers |
| outlive | 20 answers |
| Go after | 20 answers |
| outlast | 20 answers |
| Stalk | 22 answers |
| chivvy | 23 answers |
| prorogue | 23 answers |
| prolong | 23 answers |
| fish for | 24 answers |
| Solicit | 25 answers |
| Hanker | 25 answers |
| protract | 25 answers |
| Steer | 28 answers |
| reconnoitre | 28 answers |
| aspire | 29 answers |
| Woo | 30 answers |
| Schnozzle | 30 answers |
| FALL for | 31 answers |
| Move Furtively | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PURSUE (5)
Did they really feel hungry at times, or were they merely pretending, because Peter had such a jolly new way of feeding them? His way was to pursue birds who had food in their mouths suitable for humans and snatch it from them; then the birds would follow and snatch it back; and they would all go chasing each other gaily for miles, parting at last with mutual expressions of good-will.
Yes, too indolent and easy To pursue her and persuade her; So he only gazed upon her, Only sat and sighed with passion For the maiden of the prairie.
High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of _Ormus_ and of _Ind_, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showrs on her Kings _Barbaric_ Pearl & Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais’d To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue Vain Warr with Heav’n, and by success untaught His proud imaginations thus displaid.
The Nightingale, about to lose his life, earnestly begged the Hawk to let him go, saying that he was not big enough to satisfy the hunger of a Hawk who, if he wanted food, ought to pursue the larger birds.
Beholding it, Hester was constrained to rush towards the child—to pursue the little elf in the flight which she invariably began—to snatch her to her bosom with a close pressure and earnest kisses—not so much from overflowing love as to assure herself that Pearl was flesh and blood, and not utterly delusive.
Quotes with PURSUE (3)
When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!
I do not like being thwarted, but shall I receive good from the God and not also trouble? The voices that say Recover so you can get back to normal, grossly underestimate the gift of this wrecked life. Why is it a gift? Because I would have no compelling reason to step from my comfortable existence into the quest for what’s next if my present security wasn’t taken from me. It is rare for a man to plan his own journey toward growth and change. Usually these journeys are thrust…
I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made fore the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1963–2024).