Meaning of pursued in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Definitions
  3. Qualitative Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Noun

    pursued

    Definitions

    1. a person who is being chased

    Examples

    • « the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued »

  2. Qualitative Adjective

    pursued

    Definitions

    1. followed with enmity as if to harm

    Examples

    • « running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes »

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  • « Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. »
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  • « Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. »
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • « The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. »
    George Berkeley
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  • « Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born. »
    Antonio Banderas

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