PROSECUTE
prosecute
Verb
- To start civil or criminal proceedings against.
- to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot
- To charge, try.
- To seek to obtain by legal process.
- to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law
- To pursue something to the end.
- to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim
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