meaning of sue
1. To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
2. To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
3. To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
4. To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
5. To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
6. To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
7. To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
8. To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
9. To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
10. Sue The system language used to write an operating system for the IBM 360. It is a cross between Pascal and XPL. It allows type checked separate compilation of internal procedures using a program library. ["The System Language for Project Sue", B. L. Clark e al, SIGPLAN Notices 69:79-88 Oct 1971].
11. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life 1804-1857
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