Usually means: To resort to; make use.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word betake:

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  1. betake: Merriam-Webster
  2. betake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. betake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. betake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Betake, betake: Wordnik
  6. betake: Wiktionary
  7. betake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. betake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. betake: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Betake, betake: Dictionary.com
  11. Betake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. betake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Betake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. betake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. betake: FreeDictionary.org
  16. betake: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (betake)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To seize; lay hold of; take.
verb:  (reflexive, literary) To take oneself to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse.
verb:  (reflexive, archaic) To commit to a specified action.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To commend or entrust to; to commit to.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To take oneself.
verb:  (transitive) To beteach.

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