🏃‍♀️pursue

verb
/pərˈsuː/

Meaning

to follow or chase with the intent to catch or achieve something

Example Sentences

She decided to pursue her dreams of becoming a doctor.

Synonyms

chase, seek, follow, strive

Antonyms

abandon, neglect, avoid

Collocations

pursue a goal, pursue a career, pursue happiness, pursue success

More Example Sentences

My goal is to pursue higher education abroad.

What subject do you want to pursue in university?

The purpose of my travel is to pursue higher education, and I have already received an admission offer from a university.

A girl joins a dance class at a studio near her school to learn hip-hop and contemporary dance every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon and her instructor pushes her to practice hard because she shows natural rhythm and energy and within a few months she learns several routines that she performs at the annual school talent show where the audience gives her a standing ovation and she decides to pursue dance more seriously as a career.

Related Vocabularies

To designate or treat something as more important than other things
Give new life and vitality to something.
to make less extreme or intense; to control or preside over
to cause a liquid, especially blood, to change into a solid or semi-solid state
to examine or try something to see if it works or to find out information
to oppose or fight against; to withstand

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