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suing

verbnouncommon in dialogue

The act of one who sues for something.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of suepresent participle and gerund of sue

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who sues for something.

    […] her husband's increased and more frequent storms of passion, unfollowed by any halcyon and honeymoon suings for forgiveness […]

  2. 2

    obsoleteThe process of soaking through anything.

    In this instance, there is, upon the by, to be noted, the percolation or suing of the verjuice through the wood; for verjuice of itself would never have passed through the wood: so as, it seemeth, it must be first in a kind of vapour, before it pass.

Etymology

Compare French suer (“to sweat”).

Forms

plural
suings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).