An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PURSUED
pursued
(adjective) followed with enmity as if to harm; “running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes”
pursued, chased
(noun) a person who is being chased; “the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
pursued
simple past tense and past participle of pursue
Anagrams
• Purdues, pudeurs, usurped
Source: Wiktionary
PURSUE
Pur*sue", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pursued; p. pr. & vb. n. Pursuing.] Etym: [OE. pursuen, porsuen, OF. porsivre, poursuivre, poursuir, F. poursuivre, fr. L. prosequi; pro forward + sequi to follow. See Sue, and cf. Prosecute, Pursuivant.]
1. To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare. We happiness pursue; we fly from pain. Prior. The happiness of men lies in purswing, Not in possessing. Longfellow.
2. To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law. The fame of ancient matrons you pursue. Dryden.
3. To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course.
4. To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue. " Insatiate to pursue vain war." Milton.
5. To follow as an example; to imitate.
6. To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account. The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have pursued me, they shall pursue you also. Wyclif (John xv. 20).
Syn.
– To follow; chase; seek; persist. See Follow.
Pur*sue", v. i.
1. To go in pursuit; to follow. The wicked flee when no man pursueth. Prov. xxviii. 1. Men hotly pursued after the objects of their ambition. Earle.
2. To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue.
Note: [A Gallicism] I have, pursues Carneades, wondered chemists should not consider. Boyle.
3. (Law)
Definition: To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUNGLASSES
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