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caretaken

caretaken is the past participle of caretake.

Meaning of caretake

Verb

caretake (third-person singular simple present caretakes, present participle caretaking, simple past caretook, past participle caretaken)

  1. (transitive) To look after as a caretaker.
    • "Webster wants me to caretake his place while they're away."1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 100

Questions about caretaken

What is caretaken the past participle of?
Caretaken is the past participle of caretake.

Words near caretaken in the dictionary

  1. carest
  2. Careston
  3. caret
  4. caret notation
  5. caretake
  6. caretaken
  7. caretaker
  8. caretaker government
  9. caretaker governments
  10. caretaker speech
  11. caretakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caretaken (page history and authors); caretake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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