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say it: pur-SOOD
pursued is a noun and adjective meaning "a person who is being chased". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a person who is being chased
“the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued”
followed with enmity as if to harm
“running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pursued come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.