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entertake

entertake verb: to entertain; to receive.

Verb

entertake (third-person singular simple present entertakes, present participle entertaking, simple past entertook, past participle entertaken)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To entertain; to receive.
    • And with more myld aspect those two to entertake.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of entertake

third-person singular presententertakes
present participleentertaking
pastentertook
past participleentertaken

Origin of entertake

From enter- + take, after French entreprendre.

Questions about entertake

What does entertake mean?
Entertake means to entertain; to receive.
What part of speech is entertake?
Entertake is a verb.
What is the past tense of entertake?
The past tense of entertake is entertook.

Words near entertake in the dictionary

  1. entertainment centre
  2. entertainment centres
  3. entertainment value
  4. entertainments
  5. entertains
  6. entertake
  7. entertaken
  8. entertakes
  9. entertaking
  10. entertissued
  11. entertook

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