Definitions for seek

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Spelling: [seek]

IPA: /sik/

Seek is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in seek (eeks).

Definitions for seek

Idioms

1. be sought after, to be desired or in demand:

verb (used with object)

1. to go in search or quest of:
2. to try to find or discover by searching or questioning:
3. to try to obtain:
4. to try or attempt (usually followed by an infinitive):
5. to go to:
6. to ask for; request:
7. Archaic. to search or explore.

verb (used without object)

1. to make inquiry.

Origin of seek

before 900; Middle English seken, Old English sēcan; cognate with German suchen, Old Norse sœkja, Gothic sōkjan; akin to Latin sāgīre to perceive by scent (see presage

Examples for seek

The birds will seek us out and they will use no logic we know.

Parents who want to transfer custody of a child to someone other than a relative must seek permission from a judge.

There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

We ought to seek Chinese cooperation in a response to this North Korean act of aggression.

He resolved at once to seek her and give his love freedom to tell itself.

But on Thursday Boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.

Pericles went to seek his son, and found him reclining on the couch where he had left him.

But on Monday Portman said that he would not run for president, choosing to seek reelection in Ohio.

I fly to seek a kindlier sphere, Since thou hast ceased to love me here.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.