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Prosecuted
PROS'ECUTED
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Definition 2024
prosecuted
prosecuted
English
Verb
prosecuted
- simple past tense and past participle of prosecute
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, page 9
- The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House specially designed for the containment of ghosts: precise, prosaic impact of objects...washstand...door...toilet...bars...there they are...this is it...all lines cut...nothing beyond...Dead End...And the Dead End in every face...
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, page 9