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entertook

entertook is the simple past of entertake.

Meaning of entertake

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

Questions about entertook

What is entertook the simple past of?
Entertook is the simple past of entertake.

Words near entertook in the dictionary

  1. entertake
  2. entertaken
  3. entertakes
  4. entertaking
  5. entertissued
  6. entertook
  7. entertoyment
  8. entertrainment
  9. enterwrought
  10. entery
  11. entextualisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: entertook (page history and authors); entertake (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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