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tooketh

tooketh is the alternative third-person singular past of take.

Meaning of take

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present takes, present participle taking, simple past took, past participle taken or (archaic or Scotland) tane)

  1. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
    • They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
    Synonyms:
    confiscate, seize
    1. (transitive) To seize or capture.
      • take the guards prisoner
    2. (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
      • took ten catfish in one afternoon
    3. (transitive) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
    4. (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
      • Billy took her pencil.
    5. (transitive) To exact.
      • take a toll

See all 102 meanings of take

Origin of tooketh

Pseudo-loan from Middle English, derived from took + -eth, an incorrect application of the archaic marker of the third-person singular present tense (-eth) to the past tense form of the verb to take.

Questions about tooketh

What is tooketh the alternative third-person singular past of?
Tooketh is the alternative third-person singular past of take.

Words near tooketh in the dictionary

  1. Tooker
  2. Tookers
  3. Tookes
  4. Tookeses
  5. tookest
  6. tooketh
  7. Tookey
  8. tookie
  9. tookies
  10. Tooks
  11. tookst

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