To pursue with hostile intention (a person; also, in Biblical phrase, his soul or life); to go to attack, advance against (an army, country); to…

to seek on (also upon). To approach with hostile intention; to advance against, set on, attack, assail. Also in indirect passive. Similarly, to s…

transitive. Originally: to follow (a person, animal, or thing) with intent to overtake and capture, harm, or kill; to hunt. Later usually more…

To make a hostile approach to, till (a person). Obsolete. (Cf. senses 6 17a.)

transferred. To go to (a person, etc.) with hostile intentions.

transitive. To approach, esp. with hostility, to attack, assail; = accost, v. 3. Obsolete.

intransitive. = to make at —— at phrasal verbs 2.