Definition of Sue

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Definition of Sue

Sue

To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.

To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.

To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.

To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.

To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.

To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.

To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.

To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.

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Sue Quotations

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
Bill Maher

Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.
Conan O'Brien

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
Charles Barkley

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
Carol Burnett

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
Cornelius Vanderbilt

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
Ron Chernow

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'
Chris Matthews

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.
Kelly Lynch

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.
Colin Mochrie

Sue Translations

sue in Dutch is een proces aanspannen tegen
sue in French is actionnez, actionnons, actionnent
sue in German is verklagen

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