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{
"term": "sue",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "sue",
"heSheIt": "sues"
},
"pastSimple": "sued",
"pastParticiple": "sued",
"ingForm": "suing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to make a claim against a person or an organization in court about something that they have said or done to harm you",
"sensetop": "sue (somebody/something) for somethingsue somebody/something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They threatened to sue if the work was not completed."
},
{
"text": "to sue somebody for breach of contract",
"contextForm": "sue (somebody/something) for something"
},
{
"text": "to sue somebody for $10 million *(= in order to get money from somebody)*"
},
{
"text": "to **sue somebody for damages**"
},
{
"text": "He threatened to sue the company for negligence."
},
{
"text": "The water authority was successfully sued over his illness.",
"contextForm": "sue somebody/something"
}
],
"topics": ["Law and justice"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["successfully", "unsuccessfully", "promptly"],
"verb + sue": ["be able to", "be entitled to", "have the right to"],
"preposition": ["for", "over"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to formally ask for something, especially in court",
"sensetop": "sue for something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to sue for divorce"
},
{
"text": "The rebels were forced to sue for peace."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["successfully", "unsuccessfully", "promptly"],
"verb + sue": ["be able to", "be entitled to", "have the right to"],
"preposition": ["for", "over"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/suː/",
"audio": "su/sue/sue__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/suːz/",
"audio": "su/sue/sues__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/suːd/",
"audio": "su/sue/sued__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsuːɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/sue/suing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/suː/",
"audio": "su/sue/sue__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/suːz/",
"audio": "su/sue/sues__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/suːd/",
"audio": "su/sue/sued__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsuːɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/sue/suing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French suer, based on Latin sequi ‘follow’. Early senses were very similar to those of the verb follow."
}