Usually means: Actively search for or pursue.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. seek out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. seek out: Merriam-Webster
  3. seek out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. seek out: Vocabulary.com
  5. seek out: Wiktionary
  6. seek out: Dictionary.com
  7. seek out: Rhymezone
  8. seek out: FreeDictionary.org
  9. seek out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. seek out: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seek out: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seek out: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seek out: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (seek out)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To try to locate; to search for.

Similar:
look for, seek, search, outseek, seek for, search out, forseek, quest, underseek, hunt up, more...

Opposite:
avoid, shun, ignore, reject

Phrases:
seek out for help, seek you out, to seek out, seek out to start, seek a way out, more...

Adjectives:
searching, detect, suss, check, plumb, seeking, dedicate, meet, overture, encountering, deliver

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Similar:
look for, seek, search, outseek, seek for, search out, forseek, quest, underseek, hunt up, more...

Opposite:
avoid, shun, ignore, reject

Phrases:
seek out for help, seek you out, to seek out, seek out to start, seek a way out, more...

Adjectives:
searching, detect, suss, check, plumb, seeking, dedicate, meet, overture, encountering, deliver



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