seek
/ˈsiːk/ verbo A2En español: buscar, pretender, procurar, pedir
- To try to find; to look for; to search for. · I seek wisdom.
- To try to acquire or gain; to strive after. · I sought my fortune on the goldfields.
- To try to reach or come to (a location). · When the alarm went off I sought the exit in a panic.
- 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.
- To ask for; to solicit. · I seek forgiveness through repentance.
- To move to a specified location (particularly of a disk drive or similar device). · This function instructs the hard drive to seek to a specified track.
- To navigate through a data stream.
Plural seek · He/she/it seeks · Pasado sought · Participio pasado sought · Forma en -ing seeking
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
- seeking
Un verbo irregular: apréndete de memoria su pasado y su participio pasado.
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
Now go, and do not seek me again until you have earned the brains you so greatly desire.”
Such as at the commencement of the repast had not been able to seat themselves according to their inclination rose unceremoniously, and sought out more agreeable companions.
As for Fernand himself, he seemed to be enduring the tortures of the damned; unable to rest, he was among the first to quit the table, and, as though seeking to avoid the hilarious mirth that rose in such deafening sounds, he continued, in utter silence, to pace the farther end of the salon.
He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
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