Word.ws English Dictionary

seeks out

seeks out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of seek out.

Meaning of seek out

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To try to locate; to search for.
    • At the head of the fiord, and along its sides, can still be seen the hulks of German destroyers and submarines. These sought shelter in this secluded spot, but the British Navy sought them out and sank them.1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, in Railway Magazine, page 384

Questions about seeks out

What is seeks out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Seeks out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of seek out.

Words near seeks out in the dictionary

  1. seeks
  2. seeks a knot in a bulrush
  3. seeks for
  4. seeks one's fortune
  5. seeks one's virtuous couch
  6. seeks out
  7. seeksorrow
  8. seeksorrows
  9. seel
  10. Seeland
  11. Seelands

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: seeks out (page history and authors); seek out (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “seeks out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/seeks_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.