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[ noun ] a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture

Synonyms

chaser

Examples

"always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers"

Used in print

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

The chase in itself is a narrative ; it presumes both speed and urgency and it demands cutting - both from pursued to pursuer and from stage to stage of the journey of both .

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare 's poem .

Related terms

follower bounty_hunter chase

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[ noun ] a person who pursues some plan or goal

Examples

"a pursuer of truth"

Related terms

person prosecute

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