Sue in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Sue

You can make 4 words from 'sue' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'sue'
• 2 letters words from 'sue'

3 letters words from 'sue'

SUE 3

USE 3

2 letters words from 'sue'

ES 2

US 2

Definitions and meaning of sue

sue

Etymology

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) ( > French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue

Verb

sue (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.
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.

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5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.

   • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III. iv:

     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.

Quotations

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:sue.

Derived terms

• sue for peace

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• SEU, UEs, ues, use

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Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːɛ/, /suːeɪ/

Adjective

sue

1. small

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy/
• Homophones: su, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
• Rhymes: -y

Verb

sue

1. inflection of suer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. feminine singular past participle of savoir

Anagrams

• eus, use, usé

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin suae

Adjective

sue

1. his, her, its; plural of sua

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Japanese

Romanization

sue

1. Rōmaji transcription of すえ

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.e/, [ˈsʊ.ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.e/, [ˈsuː.ɛ]

Verb

sue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of suō

Noun

sue

1. ablative singular of sūs

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Middle English

Noun

sue

1. Alternative form of sowe

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Portuguese

Verb

sue

1. First-person singular (eu) affirmative imperative of suar
2. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suar
3. First-person singular (eu) negative imperative of suar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suar
5. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suar
6. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of suar

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Tarantino

Pronoun

sue m (possessive) (Feminine: soje)

1. his

Source: wiktionary.org

• SUDS, to wash in soapy water.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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