pursued

Thân thiện

The police pursued the suspect through the crowded market.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Followed with enmity or hostility, as if to harm: Describes someone or something that is being chased, often with harmful intent.
   • Hunted or tracked: Indicates the state of being the object of a pursuit.

2. Noun:

   • A person who is being chased: The individual or entity that is being followed or hunted by another.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:

  • The pursued animal disappeared into the thick forest. (The animal that was being chased vanished into the dense woods.)
  • She felt like a pursued fugitive in her own city. (She felt like a fugitive who was being hunted in her own city.)

• Noun:

  • In the chase scene, the camera alternates between the pursuer and the pursued. (In the chase scene, the camera switches views between the chaser and the person being chased.)
  • The pursued finally found a place to hide. (The person who was being chased finally found a hiding spot.)

Advanced Usage

• As a past participle in passive constructions: Often used with forms of "to be" to describe the state of being chased.
  • He was pursued by creditors for years. (He was chased by people he owed money to for a long time.)
• In a metaphorical sense: Can describe feeling pressured or followed by abstract things like guilt, memories, or deadlines.
  • Pursued by doubts, she hesitated to make a decision. (Followed by feelings of uncertainty, she paused before deciding.)

Variants and Related Words

• Pursue (verb): To follow or chase someone or something.
  • The police will pursue the suspect.
• Pursuer (noun): A person who is chasing someone.
  • The pursuer was gaining ground.
• Pursuit (noun): The act of pursuing.
  • The pursuit lasted for hours.

Synonyms

• Chased: Followed quickly with intent to catch.
• Hunted: Searched for or pursued, typically for capture or killing.
• Tracked: Followed the traces or path of.

Related Phrases

• Hotly pursued: Followed very closely and aggressively.
  • The thieves were hotly pursued by security guards.
• Be pursued by: To be followed or chased by someone or something.
  • The idea was pursued by several research teams.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. followed with enmity as if to harm
   • running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes

Noun

1. a person who is being chased
   • the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued

Từ đồng nghĩa

• chased