PURSUED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pursued mean? 

• PURSUED (noun)
  The noun PURSUED has 1 sense:

1. a person who is being chased

  Familiarity information: PURSUED used as a noun is very rare.

• PURSUED (adjective)
  The adjective PURSUED has 1 sense:

1. followed with enmity as if to harm

  Familiarity information: PURSUED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURSUED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is being chased

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chased; pursued

Context example:

the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued

Hypernyms ("pursued" is a kind of...):

hunted person (a person who is hunted)

• PURSUED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Followed with enmity as if to harm

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes

Participle:

pursue (follow in or as if in pursuit)

 Context examples 

The subject was pursued no farther, and the gentlemen soon afterwards went away.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“And you, Master—I should say, Mister Copperfield,” pursued Uriah.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Again the Ghost sprang away and raced before the wind, and for two hours Johnson and Leach pursued us.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of death.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Such a monster as had pursued me during the night could have carried away a victim as easily as a cat would a mouse.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the most dreadful ill-luck pursued me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because of their importance in cancer causation, worldwide efforts to successfully target mutant RAS genes are being pursued.

(Cellular immunotherapy targets a common human cancer mutation, NIH)

He followed the man, reached the window, saw the abstraction of the documents, and pursued the thief.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Far away between the black lines of trunks the quick glitter of steel marked where the Company pursued its way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What his feelings were whom I pursued I cannot know.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)