sue

1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.Examples: "sue someone for selling a faulty product"; "I plan to sue you for everything you have."; "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."transitive

2. (ambitransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.Examples: "The king of Bimsa sued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people."ambitransitive

3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).transitive

4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.Examples: "to sue a ship"transitive

5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.obsoletetransitive

6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.Examples: "And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’"; "though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude."obsoletetransitive