prosecute
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Is prosecute a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against.Examples: "to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot"; "To acquit themſelves and proſecute their foes"transitive
2. (transitive, law) To charge, try.Examples: "The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House specially designed for the containment of ghosts […]"transitive
3. (transitive) To pursue something to the end.Examples: "to prosecute a scheme, hope, or an investigation"; "I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?"; "Nor do we believe that a country that prosecuted two wars in China in the 19th century to force the Chinese to accept opium imports has any moral right to lecture Asians on drugs."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary