Definition of "sue"

sue

/s(j)uː/

verb
third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued
1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
  Quotations
  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.
  1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, “W. Horgan”, in History of West Australia
2. (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
  Quotations
  And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum iv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889,
  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.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie