Crossword clues for undertook
undertook
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undertake \Un`der*take"\, v. t. [imp. Undertook; p. p. Undertaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Undertaking.] [Under + take.]
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To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt.
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Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract.
I 'll undertake to land them on our coast.
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Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm.
And he was not right fat, I undertake.
--Dryden.And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.
--Shak.I dare undertake they will not lose their labor.
--Woodward. To assume, as a character. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
To engage with; to attack. [Obs.]
It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offense to.
--Shak. To have knowledge of; to hear. [Obs.]
--Spenser.-
To take or have the charge of. [Obs.] ``Who undertakes you to your end.''
--Shak.Keep well those that ye undertake.
--Chaucer.
Undertook \Un`der*took"\, imp. of Undertake.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-simple past of: undertake)
WordNet
See undertake
v. enter upon an activity or enterprise [syn: set about, attempt]
accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task" [syn: tackle, take on]
promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the prisoners" [syn: guarantee]
enter into a contractual arrangement [syn: contract]
accept as a charge [syn: take in charge]
[also: undertook, undertaken]
Usage examples of "undertook".
Helena, I am far from supposing that those who undertook to be the medium of communication between him and the public have misrepresented what he said.
Moreau himself undertook charge of the Directors who were made prisoners on the 18th Brumaire.
Talleyrand undertook to ask the First Consul for authority to give him a passport.
Desprez undertook to be the medium through which the 102,000,000 were to be paid into the Treasury, and the three partners transferred the bands to him.
He proposed to take Napoleon alone, and undertook to conceal his person so effectually as to defy the most rigid scrutiny, and offered to sail immediately to the United States of America.
He, however, undertook, on his own responsibility, to set them on shore the next day.
The next day a chicken was brought for breakfast, which the Emperor undertook to carve himself, and was surprised at his succeeding so well, it being a long time since he had done so much.
When the emperor Carus undertook the Persian war, he was induced, by motives of affection as well as policy, to secure the fortunes of his family, by leaving in the hands of his eldest son the armies and provinces of the West.
Narses undertook a long and memorable war against the princes of the house of Constantine.
Greek colonies which the Macedonians planted in Egypt, and scattered over Asia, undertook long and frequent pilgrimages to worship the Muses in their favorite temple on the banks of the Ilissus.
The siege of Petra, which the Roman general, with the aid of the Lazi, immediately undertook, is one of the most remarkable actions of the age.
Pavia had been purified from the Rugian usurper, he reviewed the national force of five thousand soldiers, and generously undertook the restoration of the kingdom of Italy.
After soothing the public despair by litanies and orations, he undertook this laborious journey with the ambassadors of the French monarch and the Greek emperor.
Romans with a repetition of claims, evasions, and inroads, which they undertook without reflection, and terminated without glory.
Charlemagne undertook the expedition, restored the emir, and, without distinction of faith, impartially crushed the resistance of the Christians, and rewarded the obedience and services of the Mahometans.