Crossword clues for seeking
seeking
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.
Wiktionary
(context in combination English) that seeks something specified n. The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something. v
(present participle of seek English)
WordNet
adj. trying to obtain; "profit-seeking producers"; "people seeking happiness"
n. the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds" [syn: quest]
an attempt to acquire or gain something
Usage examples of "seeking".
He started to intone another spell, but the archmage struck again, seeking to dispel any enchantments or abjurations protecting the lich.
Marathe was an addicted man waiting for seeking treatment by admission.
And as he rode along in that manner, taking frequent drinks, he did not think about any promises his master had made to him, and he did not consider it work but sheer pleasure to go around seeking adventures, no matter how dangerous they might be.
Don Quixote entered those mountains his heart filled with joy, for it was a landscape that seemed suited to the adventures he was seeking.
She has helped birth many babes, has saved many ailing mothers after difficult births and has never turned anyone away seeking help.
The significance of his tract has been changed by the death of Queen Anne and by his interest in presenting himselfas amartyr seeking his reward from his King and party.
So it was that Asquith purged his body of all nanotechnology, reversed some minor gene engineering, and arrived on Ambergris just in time for some of the excitement he thought he was seeking.
Isle of Glass seeking the cup, but to find my brother, but though there were many acolytes among the White Priests, Ancel was not among the acolytes.
Soon he found what he was seeking, and he willed his kha to an ancestral world where only a handful of voors were strong enough to go.
FARLEY: He is an episcopalian, an agnostic, an anythingarian seeking to overthrow our holy faith.
I saw Asteria, standing in attendance behind Clearchus, shrink back behind the slave girl next to her, seeking to avoid his piercing gaze.
Through seeming flight, The Shadow was seeking the only course by which he might nullify the catastrophe that would otherwise mean final doom for the prisoners within the Aureole Mine!
Meanwhile, in his spare time, Bahadur was seeking to improve his English by concentrating on vulgar and profane expressions.
They would be approaching the walls of the fort and seeking any message the Baptist might have for them this week.
She knew what it had to beand that, unlike a SLAM, it possessed onboard seeking capability.