See sue in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, “W. Horgan”, in History of West Australia:",
"text": "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.",
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "saksøke"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "saksøkja"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "saksøkje"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "saksøka"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "saksøke"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pozywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "pozwać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "processar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "demandar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "da în judecată"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "пресле́довать в суде́бном поря́дке",
"roman": "preslédovatʹ v sudébnom porjádke",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
]
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podavátʹ v sud",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подава́ть в суд"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predʺjavljátʹ isk",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "предъявля́ть иск"
},
{
"alt": "с - with",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sudítʹsja",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "суди́ться"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "tagair"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "tožiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "demandar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "stämma"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "lagföra"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "hablahin"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "maghabla"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "idemanda"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "magdemanda"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "fɔ́ɔng",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "ฟ้อง"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "fɔ́ɔng-rɔ́ɔng",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "ฟ้องร้อง"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "khrims la bskyal",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "ཁྲིམས་ལ་བསྐྱལ"
},
{
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "kotim"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "mahkemeye vermek"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "thưa kiện"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "kiện"
},
{
"code": "mww",
"lang": "White Hmong",
"sense": "to file a legal action",
"word": "foob"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Sue"
],
"word": "sue"
}
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