[suː], (Verb)

Definitions:
- institute legal proceedings against (a person or institution), typically for redress
(e.g: she is to sue the baby's father)

- appeal formally to a person for something
(e.g: the rebels were forced to sue for peace)


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Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French suer, based on Latin sequi ‘follow’. Early senses were very similar to those of the verb follow