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Top seducer may be taken to court (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

prosecuted

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'taken to court' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'top seducer may be' is the wordplay.
'may be' is an anagram indicator.
'top'+'seducer'='topseducer'
'topseducer' is an anagram of 'PROSECUTED'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for prosecuted that I've seen before include "carried on" , "Summoned" .)

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