prefers charges

Main Entry:
prefer charges
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: file criminal charges
Synonyms: accuse, charge, indict, press charges, take one to court
Main Entry: prosecute
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring action against in court
Synonyms: arraign, bring suit, bring to trial, contest, do, haul into court, indict, involve in litigation, law, litigate, prefer charges, pull up, put away, put on docket, put on trial, see in court, seek redress, sue, summon, take to court, try, turn on the heat
Notes: persecute means 'to harass or treat unjustly'; prosecute is 'to bring legal action against' or 'to pursue something until the end'
Antonyms: exonerate, free, liberate, pardon
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Book.
Category: 2. Conventional means; written language
Synonyms:
-nouns
booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule; tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book., part, issue, number, livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal., paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream, chapter, section head, article, paragraph, passage, clause., folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo., encyclopedia; encompilation; library, bibliotheca; press (publication)., writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaus, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny-a-liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; powt., bookseller, publisher; bibliopole, bibliopolist; librarian; bookstore, bookseller's shop., knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning (knowledge).
-phrases
"among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; "I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and write" [Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton); "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; "volumes
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