Betake
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bɪˈteɪk/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Betake is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
Meaning
(transitive, obsolete) To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
More Meanings
- (transitive, obsolete) To seize; lay hold of; take.
- (reflexive, literary) To take oneself to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse.
- (reflexive, archaic) To commit to a specified action.
- (transitive, archaic) To commend or entrust to; to commit to.
- (intransitive, archaic, often poetic) To take oneself.
- (transitive) To beteach.
Example Sentences
The rest, in imitation, to like arms / Betook them.
[H]he mechanically rose, and sleepily wondering what could be in the wind, betook himself to the designated place […]
a rain-cloud [...] had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested [...].
One morning as I lay in my bed, a ſtrong motion vvas ſuddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London; I aroſe and betook me to the vvay, […]
Word Forms
- betakes
- betaking
- betook
- betaken
Synonyms for betake
Depending on context, synonyms include wend.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include beteach, take, betow, carry, vang, beken.
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