pursuer
noun
1 pursuer
A person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture:
— Always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers.
synonym: chaser.
Roget 622:
pursuit;
pursuing
etc.
v.;
prosecution;
pursuance;
enterprise
etc.
(undertaking)
676;
business
etc.
625;
adventure
etc.
(essay)
675;
quest
etc.
(search)
461;
scramble,
hue and cry,
game;
hobby;
still-hunt.
chase,
hunt,
battue†,
race,
steeple chase,
hunting,
coursing;
venation,
venery;
fox chase;
sport,
sporting;
shooting,
angling,
fishing,
hawking;
shikar
(Geog loc:India).
pursuer;
hunter,
huntsman;
shikari
(Geog loc:India),
sportsman,
Nimrod;
hound
etc.
366.
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Dutch: achtervolger, vervolger
2 pursuer
A person who pursues some plan or goal.
Moby thesaurus: addict, adherent, admirer, adorer, amorist, appendage, attendant, buff, bug, cavaliere servente, chaser, collector, courtier, dangler, demon, dependent, disciple, eager beaver, energumen, enthusiast, faddist, fan, fanatic, fiend, flunky, follower, following, freak, great one for, hanger-on, henchman, hobbyist, homme de cour, hound, hunter, infatuate, lover, nut, paramour, parasite, partisan, public, pursuant, pursuivant, quester, rhapsodist, satellite, sectary, seeker, shadow, stooge, successor, sucker for, suitor, supporter, tagtail, tail, trainbearer, visionary, votary, ward heeler, wooer, zealot ... show more.
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