sueとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /suː/
• 韻: -uː
• 異形同音異義語: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue, sew (etymology 2)

動詞

sue (三人称単数 現在形 sues, 現在分詞 suing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sued)

1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.

   sue someone for selling a faulty product

   I plan to sue you for everything you have.

   • 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, “W. Horgan”, in History of West Australia:

     He was sued by the late Geo. Walpole Leake for slander, and after two trials, occupying eight days, he was mulcted in heavy damages and costs.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore^[1].

   to sue a ship

5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
   • a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III. iv:

     though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sue.

派生語

• sue for peace

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