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prosecutes

verb

Meaning

  1. To start criminal proceedings against.
  2. To charge, try.
  3. To seek to obtain by legal process.
  4. To pursue something to the end.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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