Prosecute is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROSECUTE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pursue by law
• institute or conduct legal proceedings against (a person or organization)
• institute legal proceedings in respect of (a claim or offence)
• continue with (a course of action) with a view to its completion
• carry on (a trade or pursuit)
• bring a criminal charge against
• To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.
• To seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law.
• To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot.
• To follow after.
• To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses.
• conduct a prosecution in a court of law
• bring a criminal action against (in a trial)
• carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to follow to the en; pursue until finished

Words related to PROSECUTE

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Words that contain PROSECUTE

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How to use PROSECUTE in a sentence

• They got the proper officer to prosecute every rum-seller.
• Sidney he was willing to perform, on the condition that he should not be called upon to prosecute any other parties than those to whose conviction he had sworn to devote his life.
• The day but one after this deliverance, Joan set out to go and rejoin the king, and prosecute her work at his side.
• A negotiation entered into for procuring compensation to individuals involved no positive obligation on their Governments to prosecute it to extremities.
• If it did, we should have to prosecute everyone who employed a governess or sent away a little boy to a preparatory school.
• It was necessary for Chown and his wife to go to Bombay and prosecute their claims in person.
• After this they continued to prosecute their work, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ.
• It was not, however, through himself that he wished to win her over to prosecute Reilly.
• The detective returned to the township in the afternoon to prosecute the search for Ephraim, of whom nothing had yet been heard.
• But further delay to adopt and prosecute our policies for both domestic and foreign affairs would not only bring scandal on the administration, but danger upon the country.
• He warned me not to sell or cut one, as he would prosecute me at once if I did.
• If Charles wished to prosecute the five members for treason, a bill against them should have been sent to a grand jury.
• He refuses to prosecute the wretch, or if the prosecution is carried on in spite of him, his evidence amounts to nothing.
• Subscriptions were opened, and large sums levied, on one side, to prosecute for perjury the persons on whose evidence the pardon had been granted.
• An ill-concerted peace was in a little time productive of fresh hostilities, and another war with France, which Britain began to prosecute under favourable auspices.
• First, prosecute uninterruptedly teaching campaign inaugurated at last Convention in accordance with Divine Plan.
• They were determined, nevertheless, to give it another trial, on the failure of which they meant to prosecute their voyage to the coast of Peru.
• Mistrust Athos, therefore, who will not prosecute the affairs of any one, even his own.
• The existence of the war having thus been declared by Congress, it became my duty under the Constitution and the laws to conduct and prosecute it.
• The loans required to prosecute the war with Mexico were negotiated by the Secretary of the Treasury above par, realizing a large premium to the Government.
• So, though they had me over to Backsworth, they could not fall foul of me for refusing to prosecute.
• The Courts at Barnstable, it is said, are closed to them, in the way pointed out by the law, the District Attorney refusing to prosecute the men who cut wood on the parsonage.
• Jimmie remained in London, determined to prosecute his search for Madge more vigorously than ever.
• I now am about to seek my fortune, and prosecute my search after my father.
• War being thus formally declared, both parties prepared to prosecute it with the utmost vigor.
• The officer who holds his position by the votes of men who want free whiskey, can not prosecute the whiskey-sellers.

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