seek out
English
Etymology
From Middle English seken out, sechen out (“to seek out”), dissimilated from Middle English *outseken, outsechen (“to seek out”). More at outseek.
Verb
seek out (third-person singular simple present seeks out, present participle seeking out, simple past and past participle sought out)
- (transitive) To try to locate; to search for.
- 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
- Some of us order far more than we need online. Some of us are so deep in the countryside that delivery vans must divert their routes to seek us out.
- 2022 October 22, Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, in The New York Times:
- Ralph still seeks out physical release. Like Moses, he does his best thinking when he’s swimming. “I think challenging yourself physically is a great way of getting all the crap out of your head,” he said.
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Synonyms
- forseek
- hunt down
- track down
Translations
to try to locate
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Anagrams
- ekes out, outseek