prosecutes
- 1Third-person singular simple present of prosecute.
The district attorney prosecutes hundreds of cases each year.
When a company pollutes a protected river, the government prosecutes the offenders.
Note
The -s form carries every sense of prosecute, not just the courtroom one. Usually it takes a direct object: a prosecutor prosecutes a defendant, or prosecutes a case. The same form also serves the sense of pursuing something to its end, as when a government prosecutes a war or a campaign. That use has nothing to do with crime, so read the object before assuming a trial.
The general prosecutes the campaign with grim persistence.
She prosecutes her inquiry until every question is answered.
prosecutes is a form of prosecute
prosecute, verb: To initiate criminal proceedings against a person accused of an offense. Full entry
- Forms
- prosecuteprosecutes he/she/itprosecuting -ing formprosecuted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- prosecute → prosecutes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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