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uptook

uptook is the simple past of uptake.

Meaning of uptake

Verb

uptake (third-person singular simple present uptakes, present participle uptaking, simple past uptook, past participle uptaken)

  1. (archaic) To take up, to lift.
    • He hearkned to his reason, and the childe
      Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
  3. To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.

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Questions about uptook

What is uptook the simple past of?
Uptook is the simple past of uptake.

Words near uptook in the dictionary

  1. Upton Scudamore
  2. Upton with Fishley
  3. Upton-on-Severn
  4. Uptonian
  5. Uptons
  6. uptook
  7. uptore
  8. uptorn
  9. uptoss
  10. uptossed
  11. uptosses

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