prosecuting
- 1Present participle and gerund of prosecute.
The district attorney is prosecuting several suspects in connection with the robbery.
Prosecuting environmental crimes often requires specialized legal expertise.
Note
The -ing form carries every sense of prosecute, legal and otherwise. After be it forms the progressive; as a gerund it heads a noun phrase (prosecuting fraud is slow work). It is transitive, so it takes its object directly: prosecuting a suspect, never prosecuting against one. Beside the courtroom meaning sits the wider one of pursuing something to the end, as in prosecuting a war or an inquiry.
prosecuting 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 → prosecuting: drop the e, add -ing
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