SEEK meaning: Attempt to find or obtain

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word seek:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

seek: Merriam-Webster.com
seek: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
seek: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
seek: Collins English Dictionary
seek: Vocabulary.com
Seek, seek: Wordnik
seek: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
seek: Wiktionary
seek: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
seek: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
seek: Infoplease Dictionary
seek: Dictionary.com
seek: Online Etymology Dictionary
seek: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Seek (NCIS), Seek: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Seek: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
seek: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
seek: Rhymezone
seek: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
seek: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
seek: Free Dictionary
seek: Mnemonic Dictionary
seek: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
seek: Dictionary/thesaurus
seek: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

seek: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

seek: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
seek: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
seek: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

SEEK: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
seek: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

seek: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
SEEK: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, sometimes proscribed) To attempt, endeavour, try
▸ verb:  (intransitive, computing) To navigate through a stream.
▸ noun:  (computing) The operation of navigating through a stream.
▸ noun:  A surname from German.
▸ noun:  Obsolete form of Sikh. [An adherent of Sikhism.]

Similar:

look for, search, assay, attempt, try, essay, strive, encourage, pursue, want, more...

Opposite:

avoid, ignore, shun, evade, overlook

Types:

search, look for, find, hunt, look up, more...

Phrases:

to seek, seek out, seek for, seek after, goal seek, more...

Adjectives:

and, hide, goal, pale, vain, sang, detective, light, mighty, hideand, shaken

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