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sought out

sought out is the simple past and past participle 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 sought out

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

Words near sought out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sought 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.

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