Seek

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To try to locate or discover; search for.
  • v. To endeavor to obtain or reach: seek a college education.
  • v. To go to or toward: Water seeks its own level.
  • v. To inquire for; request: seek directions from a police officer.
  • v. To try; endeavor: seek to do good.
  • v. Obsolete To explore.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a search or investigation: Seek and you will find.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To try to find, to look for, to search.
  • v. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
  • v. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
  • v. To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Sick.
  • v. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
  • v. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
  • v. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
  • v. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
  • verb-intransitive. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To go in search or quest of; look or search for; endeavor to find: often followed by out.
  • To inquire for; ask for; solicit; desire or try to obtain.
  • To go to; resort to; have recourse to.
  • To aim at; pursue as an object; strive after; attempt: as, to seek a person's life or his ruin.
  • To try; endeavor: with an infinitive object.
  • To search; search through.
  • To look at; consult.
  • To go; proceed; resort; have recourse; apply: with to.
  • To search, or make search or inquiry.
  • (b ) At a loss; without knowledge, experience, or resources; helpless: used adjectively, usually with be.
  • A Middle English form of sick.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. go to or towards
  • v. inquire for
  • v. make an effort or attempt
  • n. the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
  • v. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
  • v. try to get or reach
  • Verb Form
    seeked    seeking    seeks    sought   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    locomote    travel    move    go    request    movement    motion   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    sought   
    Hyponym
    shop    quest after    fish    pursue    browse    gather    grub    quest for    hunt    surf   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sick    solicit    beseech    search    try    look for   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cheek    Creek    Dominique    Greek    Martinique    Monique    Mozambique    Sikh    Tariq    Zeke