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What is the verb for pursuit?

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pursue
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment. [from 14th c.]
  2. (transitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. [from 14th c.]
  3. (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). [from late 14th c.]
  4. (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). [from late 14th c.]
  5. (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession). [from 15th c.]
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The police would relentlessly pursue Niko Bellic after he robbed a bank.”
      “The bounty hunter would begin to pursue his target after being given a tip-off.”
      “He chose to pursue his research abroad because local ecology had already been comprehensively studied.”
pursuing
persue
  1. Obsolete form of pursue.
  2. Examples:
    1. “After high school, Katherine plans to move on to persue a university education.”
      “With an extensive experience in amateur's movies she settles in Paris in 2006to persue her passion.”
      “Then seven of them left by road on Friday, April 18th for Nairobi to persue an intensive Engligh language course.”
pursues
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pursue
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Keaton looks fantastic, to the extent that when Keanu Reeves's charming doctor persistently pursues her, we're not in the least surprised.”
      “As a result, she pursues her objectives with a fierce intensity that will not let go of things.”
      “At first, the breed was known as the Lhasa terrier, though it is not and never was an earth dog, i.e., one that pursues its quarry underground.”
persues
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of persue
pursueth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of pursue
pursuest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of pursue
pursued
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pursue
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Six months later, U.S. troops drove Filipino militias from Manila and pursued them into the countryside.”
      “But it is a policy that must be pursued on the quiet so as not to spook the country's growing legion of foreign creditors.”
      “The drafters of the 1712 slave code pursued such goals when writing the preamble of the first comprehensive slave code enacted in South Carolina.”
persued
  1. simple past tense and past participle of persue
persuing
  1. present participle of persue
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