Went vs Pursue - What's the difference?
went | pursue |
(go)
(nonstandard)
(archaic) (wend)
(obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
* Chaucer
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
(obsolete) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.
To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 20
* 2009 , Martin Chulov, ‘Iraqi shoe-thrower claims he suffered torture in jail’, The Guardian , 15 Sep 09:
To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
* 2009 , Benjamin Pogrund, ‘Freeze won't hurt Netanyahu’, The Guardian , 1 Dec 09:
To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).
As verbs the difference between went and pursue
is that went is (go) while pursue is (obsolete|transitive) to follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.As a noun went
is (obsolete) a course; a way, a path; a journey.went
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* (l), (l) (both archaic)Statistics
*Noun
(en noun)- At a turning of a wente .
- But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went .
pursue
English
Verb
(pursu)- The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have pursued' me, they shall ' pursue you also.
- He now feared for his life, and believed US intelligence agents would pursue him.
- Her rival pursued a quite different course.
- He even stands to gain in world terms: his noisy critics strengthen his projected image of a man determined to pursue peace with Palestinians.
