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seeking for

seeking for is the present participle and gerund of seek for.

Meaning of seek for

Verb

seek for (third-person singular simple present seeks for, present participle seeking for, simple past and past participle sought for)

  1. (archaic) To try to find or attain; to seek.
    • Any one who doubts the quality of the sport found by those fishermen who seek for their Sunday victims in the North River should have strolled along its bank yesterday above One Hundredth-street.1889, “LOTS OF FISH CAUGHT.; CROWDS OF FISHERMEN ALONG THE NORTH RIVER AND AT CITY ISLAND.”, in The New York Times

Questions about seeking for

What is seeking for the present participle and gerund of?
Seeking for is the present participle and gerund of seek for.

Words near seeking for in the dictionary

  1. seekh kebabs
  2. seekhs
  3. seekin'
  4. seeking
  5. seeking a knot in a bulrush
  6. seeking for
  7. seeking one's fortune
  8. seeking one's virtuous couch
  9. seeking out
  10. seekingly
  11. seekings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seeking for (page history and authors); seek for (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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