sued
SaySOOD/sud/
- 1Simple past and past participle of sue.
The tenants sued their landlord for failing to make repairs.
He was sued by a former business partner over the contract.
Note
One spelling serves as both the simple past and the past participle, so the surrounding words decide which is meant. With have it forms the perfect (they have sued); with be it forms the passive (he was sued). The legal meaning dominates, but the form carries every sense of sue: petitioning, cleaning a beak, leaving something high and dry on shore, and the obsolete senses of courting and following.
sued is a form of sue
sue, verb: To bring a civil legal action against a person or organization in court. Full entry
- Spelling
- sue → sued: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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