PURSUAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pursual mean? 

• PURSUAL (noun)
  The noun PURSUAL has 1 sense:

1. the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture

  Familiarity information: PURSUAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURSUAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chase; following; pursual; pursuit

Context example:

the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit

Hypernyms ("pursual" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pursual"):

tracking; trailing (the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind)

shadowing; tailing (the act of following someone secretly)

stalk; stalking (the act of following prey stealthily)