Definition of seek

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Seek (v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life..

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Mark :: Mark (n.) That toward which a missile is directed; a thing aimed at; what one seeks to hit or reach.
Grouse :: Grouse (v. i.) To seek or shoot grouse.
Fish :: Fish (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments..
Hunt :: Hunt (v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
Find :: Find (v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost..
Pleasurer :: Pleasurer (n.) A pleasure seeker.
Botanize :: Botanize (v. i.) To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
Job :: Job (v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
Swarm :: Swarm (n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive..
Schism :: Schism (n.) Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause..
Seek :: Seek (v. t.) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.
Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Look :: Look (v. t.) To seek; to search for.
Inquire :: Inquire (v. i.) To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination.
Pleasure :: Pleasure (v. i.) To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring..
Cause :: Cause (v.) The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain..
Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.
Demand :: Demand (v. t.) To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience..
Research :: Research (v. t.) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
Philanthropist :: Philanthropist (n.) One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others..
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