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partake

Syllables: par·takeUK/pɑːˈteɪk//pɑɹˈteɪk/

partake verb: to take part in an activity; to participate.

Verb

partake (third-person singular simple present partakes, present participle partaking, simple past partook, past participle partaken)

  1. (formal, intransitive) To take part in an activity; to participate.
    • Brutes partake in this faculty.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC
  2. (formal, intransitive) To take a share or portion.
    • Will you partake of some food?
    • The steak and chips partaken of for lunch seemed now to belong to another decade. He regretfully recognized the fact that he would not make a success of a hunger strike.1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To have something of the properties, character, or office.
    • the Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster , who partakes of both qualities, partly of a judge in the court, and partly of an attorney-generalc. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
    • The people are encouraged to perceive their liberation in historic terms and to trust that new events will partake of past glories.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1107

partake meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam

partake in Tamil

மற்றவர்களோடு பகிர்ந்து கொள், பங்குகொள், கலந்துகொள், பங்கைப் பெறு, கொண்டிரு

partake in Urdu

حصہ لینا, اشتراک کرنا

partake in Telugu

to take part in an activity
పాల్గొను pālgonu

partake in Malayalam

പങ്കുകൊള്ളുക, ഭാഗഭാക്കാവുക, പൊതുപ്രശ്നമാകുക
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partake in Kannada
ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗು, ಪಾಲುತೆಗೆದುಕೊ, ಪಾಲುಪಡೆ
partake in Sanskrit
दय् day

Examples of partake in a sentence

  • Whosoever partakes of this elixir shall have eternal life.
  • Today we'll be partaking in some hoodology and learning the right slang to use when in the hood.
  • Each DLC features a brand new story, new raids, and lots of activities to partake in.

All 40 example sentences with partake

Forms of partake

third-person singular presentpartakes
present participlepartaking
pastpartook
past participlepartaken

Past tense of partake: partook

Origin of partake

Back-formation from Middle English part-takinge, part-takynge (“a sharing; partaking”), a calque of Latin particeps (“participating”); equivalent to part + take. Compare take part. In the sense of taking a share or portion of something, displaced native Old English onbītan (“to taste of, to partake of”).

Words formed from partake

Words that rhyme with partake

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Questions about partake

What does partake mean?
Partake means to take part in an activity; to participate.
What is partake in Tamil?
Partake in Tamil is மற்றவர்களோடு பகிர்ந்து கொள், பங்குகொள், கலந்துகொள். See Partake meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is partake?
Partake is a verb.
How do you pronounce partake?
Partake is pronounced /pɑɹˈteɪk/ (US).
What is the past tense of partake?
The past tense of partake is partook.

Words near partake in the dictionary

  1. partage
  2. partages
  3. Partain
  4. Partains
  5. partakable
  6. partake
  7. partakeable
  8. partaked
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  10. partaker
  11. partakers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: partake (page history and authors); partake (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); partake (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); partake (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); partake (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दय् (Sanskrit) (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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