Prosecuted vs Prosecute - What's the difference?
prosecuted | prosecute |
(prosecute)
* 1959 , William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch , page 9
(legal) To start criminal proceedings against.
* Milton
(legal) To charge, try.
To seek to obtain by legal process.
To pursue something to the end.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between prosecuted and prosecute
is that prosecuted is past tense of prosecute while prosecute is to start criminal proceedings against.prosecuted
English
Verb
(head)- The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House specially designed for the containment of ghosts: precise, prosaic impact of objects...washstand...door...toilet...bars...there they are...this is it...all lines cut...nothing beyond...Dead End...And the Dead End in every face...
prosecute
English
Verb
(prosecut)- to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot
- To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes.
- to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law
- to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim
- I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?