Term: civil suit: a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant
Candidate hypernym: lawsuit: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy → 1
Candidate hypernym: animal order: the order of animals → 0
Candidate hypernym: day game: a game played in daylight → 0
Candidate hypernym: furnishing: (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable → 0
Candidate hypernym: arteriosclerosis: sclerosis of the arterial walls → 0
Candidate hypernym: zostera: (or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: grief: something that causes great unhappiness → 0
Candidate hypernym: bramble bush: any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: island: a zone or area resembling an island → 0
Candidate hypernym: purine: a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances → 0
Candidate hypernym: theater light: any of various lights used in a theater → 0