[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.:The police officer chased the thief.", "to pursue with intent to capture or kill, as game; hunt :to chase deer.", "to follow or devote one's attention to with the hope of attracting, winning, gaining, etc.:He chased her for three years before she consented to marry him.", "to drive or expel by force, threat, or harassment:She chased the cat out of the room.Synonyms: scatter , rout , oust"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to follow in pursuit:to chase after someone.", "to rush or hasten:We spent the weekend chasing around from one store to another."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act of chasing; pursuit :The chase lasted a day.Synonyms: quest , hunt", "an object of pursuit; something chased.", "Chiefly British.a private game preserve; a tract of privately owned land reserved for, and sometimes stocked with, animals and birds to be hunted.", "British.the right of keeping game or of hunting on the land of others.", "a steeplechase .", "the chase,the sport or occupation of hunting:the excitement of the chase."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to pursue :The hunt began and the dogs gave chase."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a rectangular iron frame in which composed type is secured or locked for printing or platemaking.", "Building Trades.a space or groove in a masonry wall or through a floor for pipes or ducts.", "a groove, furrow, or trench; a lengthened hollow.", "Ordnance.the part of a gun in front of the trunnions.the part containing the bore.", "the part of a gun in front of the trunnions.", "the part containing the bore."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to ornament (metal) by engraving or embossing.", "to cut (a screw thread), as with a chaser machine tool."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Mary Ellen,1887–1973,U.S. educator, novelist, and essayist.", "Sal·mon Portland[sal, -m, uh, n],1808–73,U.S. jurist and statesman: secretary of the treasury 1861–64; chief justice of the U.S. 1864–73.", "Samuel,1741–1811,U.S. jurist and leader in the American Revolution: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1796–1811.", "Stuart,1888–1985,U.S. economist and writer."]}]