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sought for

sought for is the simple past and past participle 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 sought for

What is sought for the simple past and past participle of?
Sought for is the simple past and past participle of seek for.

Words near sought for in the dictionary

  1. soughings
  2. soughs
  3. sought
  4. sought a knot in a bulrush
  5. sought after
  6. sought for
  7. sought one's fortune
  8. sought one's virtuous couch
  9. sought out
  10. sought-after
  11. soughten

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sought 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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