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soughten

soughten is the past of seek.

soughten is the past participle of seek.

Meaning of seek

Verb

seek (third-person singular simple present seeks, present participle seeking, simple past and past participle sought or (verb sense 7 or verb sense 8, otherwise nonstandard) seeked)

  1. (ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
    • I seek wisdom.
    Synonyms:
    look for, search for
  2. (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after.
    • I sought my fortune on the goldfields.
  3. (transitive) To try to reach or come to (a location).
    • When the alarm went off I sought the exit in a panic.
  4. (intransitive) To attempt, to try [with infinitive ‘to do something’].
    • Our company does not seek to limit its employees from using the internet or engaging in social networking.
  5. (transitive) To ask for; to solicit.
    • I seek forgiveness through repentance.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To go, to move, to travel (in a given direction).
    • Ryght so he sought[…]towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...

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Questions about soughten

What is soughten the past of?
Soughten is the past of seek.

Words near soughten in the dictionary

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

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