defend(PROTECT)
Can't you read the sign? It says 'Trespassers will be prosecuted!'
People who hand in illegal weapons will not be prosecuted during the amnesty.在赦免期内交出非法枪支的人将不会受到起诉。
He was prosecuted for having sex with a girl who was underage.他因和未成年少女发生性关系而被起诉。
You'll be relieved to hear that our clients have decided not to prosecute.
The company is to be prosecuted under the Sex Discrimination Act.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking legal action
abatement order
ambulance-chasing
appear for someone
bring
bring an action
complainant
enter
indict
indictment
lawyer
lawyer up
legal action
litigant
litigate
petitioner
prosecute
prosecution
prosecutorial
reindict
reindictment

prosecuteverb (CONTINUE)

[ T ]formal
to continue to take part in a planned group of activities, especially a war: 把…进行到底，继续参与（尤指战争）
He seemed convinced that the US would prosecute the war to its end.他似乎确信美国会将这场战争进行到底。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Continue & last
(it's) business as usualidiom
bash on
bubble away
carry (something) on
cease
cont.
drag
echo
immortally
in the makingidiom
insist on doing something
isochronous
leg
protraction
push ahead
push on
run on
run someone/something over
span
spin

Examples of prosecuted

prosecuted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Violence between spouses, partners, parents or children has been less likely to be prosecuted than 'public ' violence.
Democracies require that criminals be apprehended with evidence and prosecuted through the legal system before being sentenced.
If the labourer gave evidence at this stage that he or she had been forced, the manager could be prosecuted.
How this revolution was to be prosecuted was never systematically discussed, nor were other options explored.
Of the 21 bakers prosecuted by the vice-chancellor between 1600 and 1602, only 6 appeared just once.
He led the resurgent postwar opposition and was twice prosecuted for seditious libel.
These prosecuted crimes increased from a total of 25 in 1862, to 49 in 1865, and 47 in 1866.
Such documentary evidence forms an imperfect measure of the actual incidence of corruption, since many incidents are never discovered or prosecuted, especially in corrupt environments.
It also tends to favour the more spectacular and public criminal purge prosecuted through the special purge courts.
This occurs only when the judicial system is highly inefficient, in the sense that the probability of being prosecuted lies below a threshold level.
Should a bicyclist wearing charcoal-gray clothes be prosecuted under the law?
Of course these offences could be prosecuted only irregularly, but fines in some parishes were meted out.
He found himself prosecuted for sedition, and deserted by his political allies.
Those prosecuted explained that they had simply come to the city to visit a brother or uncle, or for private employment purposes.
But unlike purely criminal charges, the individual wronged (the husband or father) personally prosecuted the case and paid a fee to register it.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.