Crossword clues for sought
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seek \Seek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.] [OE. seken, AS. s[=e]can, s[=e]cean; akin to OS. s[=o]kian, LG. s["o]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. s[ae]kja, Sw. s["o]ka, Dan. s["o]ge, Goth. s[=o]kjan, and E. sake. Cf. Beseech, Ransack, Sagacious, Sake, Soc.]
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To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren.
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To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.
--Luke xi. 16. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
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To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal.
--Amos v. Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.
--Pope.
Sought \Sought\, imp. & p. p. of Seek.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past tense and past participle of seek, from Old English sohte. Sought-after is from 1881 (sought-for in same sense is from c.1600).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastseek)
WordNet
v. try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness"
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" [syn: search, look for]
make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" [syn: try, attempt, essay, assay]
go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level"
inquire for; "seek directions from a local"
[also: sought]
n. the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
[also: sought]
adj. that is looked for; "the long sought relatives"
being searched for; "the most sought-after item was the silver candelabrum" [syn: sought-after(a)]
See seek
Usage examples of "sought".
She was as much the master now as he was, and she chafed at the restrictions he constantly sought to place upon her.
Red threads sought him out, searing their way slowly over the metal carpet, leaving deep grooves that smoked and steamed.
Creepers sought to bar their escape, turning them aside at every opportunity, giving pursuit like hungry wolves, skittering along on their metal struts and spindly legs, strange and awkward machines.
An odd mix of hisses and shrieks rose from the trapped creatures as they sought to evade the burning ropes and failed.
Antrax had been programmed to solve the puzzles that confronted it, and so it sought a solution to that one.
All of them sought answers to what had happened to their friends, and there could be no peace of mind until those answers were found.
It was the voyage Walker sought to make, and I was seeing small parts of it.
Others had sought to breach her defenses, to convince her of their rightness, to twist her thinking to suit their own.
The sensations emerged from the green of the jungle, from the emerald sea he sought to swim, reaching out to him.
A machine that built machines, a creation of the technology of the Old World, it had known to test the capabilities of those it sought to snare.
Those were the dark places into which they had wandered and from which they sought to return.
Which ones would most benefit the world he lived in and the people he sought to help?
It was an infinite maze, but ultimately there was only one right path for each human who sought to navigate its twisting corridors.
He had brought her with him to give him insight into what the future held, but he had never imagined that the insight he sought would come to him in such a roundabout way.
Druid in favor of the magic they both sought, yet she could not ignore his presence.