betake
to cause to go (usually used reflexively): She betook herself to town.
Archaic. to resort or have recourse to.
Origin of betake
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How to use betake in a sentence
The imitation of foreigners is the dangerous blind alley into which our art has betaken itself.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard MutherBy this time she had shaken off Stannard and had betaken herself and her disgust to the edge of the woods.
The Camerons of Highboro | Beth B. GilchristTruth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour.
The merry market-gardener has betaken himself and his cabbages to other parts, and the builder builds but sparely.
The Great North Road: London to York | Charles G. HarperI took it up, and ascertained, in an instant, that he had betaken himself to the drug most commonly resorted to by suicides.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 | Alexander Leighton
British Dictionary definitions for betake
/ (bɪˈteɪk) /
betake oneself to go; move
archaic to apply (oneself) to
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