[
US
/pɝˈsuɝ/
]
[ UK /pəsjˈuːɐ/ ]
[ UK /pəsjˈuːɐ/ ]
NOUN
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a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers -
a person who pursues some plan or goal
a pursuer of truth
How To Use pursuer In A Sentence
- It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails.
- Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
- The children would gather in a noisy clump at the rear window to shout encouragement and offer coaching tips to their pursuer.
- A teacher pranced before the class in a red cloak, but it was her big-mouthed gator pursuer that … Literacy News – 76th Edition « News « Literacy News
- Owing to these reversals the linear and telic structure of the narrative is attenuated as the pursuer becomes the pursued, the hunter the hunted, the victimizer the victim, the will to kill the will to die.
- In such a case, the only women who will interfere and warn the intended victim will be his own relatives – a mother or a sister; others, while under no delusions as to the interested nature of the motives by which the pursuer is actuated, will hold their tongues, and even go so far as to offer facilities for the chase. Marriage as a Trade
- And though that wasn't good for finding out how Tammy was doing, it did suggest the absence of their pursuer. COLDHEART CANYON
- He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up.
- We managed to give our pursuers the slip.
- There are four distinct learning relationships: the lagger, pursuer, potential one, and pioneer.