sue

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sue/suː/

▶verb (sues, suing, sued)

• 1 institute legal proceedings against (a person or institution), typically for redress.

• 2 formal appeal formally to a person for something.

– derivatives
suable adjective,
suer noun.

– origin ME (also in sense ‘follow’): from Anglo-Norman Fr. suer, based on L. sequi ‘follow’.