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For the verb: "to seek"
| Simple Past: | sought |
| Past Participle: | sought |
sought seek
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sought/sɔːt/
past and past participle of seek.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
seek/siːk/
▶verb (past and past part. sought)
- 1 attempt to find.
■ (seek someone/thing out) search for and find someone or something.
- 2 attempt to obtain or do.
- 3 ask for.
- 4 archaic go to (a place).
– phrases
seek dead Brit. used to instruct a retriever to go and look for game that has been shot.
to seek archaic not yet found; lacking.
seek dead Brit. used to instruct a retriever to go and look for game that has been shot.
to seek archaic not yet found; lacking.
– derivatives
seeker noun.
seeker noun.
– origin OE sēcan, of Gmc origin.
'sought' also found in these Oxford entries:
alienation
- alkahest
- Aries
- Cathar
- cold
- collectable
- demand
- e-fit
- enquire
- golden hello
- grail
- hunting ground
- identikit
- imagism
- miserere
- Nazarene
- neo-Impressionism
- nouvelle vague
- photofit
- Pre-Raphaelite
- puritan
- quarry
- recherché
- seek
- situation
- sought after
- spot
- surrealism
- sympathetic magic
- unasked
- utility
- videofit
- want
- warm
- Whig
Forum discussions with the word(s) "sought" in the title:
"order sought in the petition" could not be granted as the matter of law
A phrase sought
and the results sought
attribution sought:"there's nowt so queer as folk"
cohort of women in America sought after~
he sought to wrap up on a high-note.
it continues to be sought
much sought-after at exhibition
Proper English word sought for slang expression.
sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away
sought to associate
sought to dominate / sought domination
sought to find
trying not to look for what he had always sought, the son of a once great house
Type of degree sought.
Your kind cooperation and help is/are sought.
A phrase sought
and the results sought
attribution sought:"there's nowt so queer as folk"
cohort of women in America sought after~
he sought to wrap up on a high-note.
it continues to be sought
much sought-after at exhibition
Proper English word sought for slang expression.
sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away
sought to associate
sought to dominate / sought domination
sought to find
trying not to look for what he had always sought, the son of a once great house
Type of degree sought.
Your kind cooperation and help is/are sought.
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