Reverse Dictionary: SEEK

NOUNS – PERSON
► SUITOR one who seeks earnestly → 1548 obs.

VERBS
► BESEECH to seek after, to search for, to try to get → c1200 obs.
► BUSK to go searching or seeking for something; to go from place to place → 1635
► CAPTATE to catch at, to strive to obtain, to seek after → 1628 obs.
► EVESTIGATE to seek out, to search after, to investigate → 1656 obs.
► FOND to enquire; to seek, to look for; to enquire into a matter; to search a place, to examine a track → c1225 obs.
► KEEP to try to catch or get; to seek after → c1000 obs.
► LAIT to look for, to seek, to search for; to seek and bring with one, to fetch → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► OFSECHE to seek after; to search for; to make a search → c1225 obs.
► SCRAWM to gather hastily together; to rake together; to seek after greedily → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SEEK FOR A SALMON’S NEST to look for something that doesn’t exist → 1589 obs.
► SNIFF OUT to seek as if by following a scent → 1940s Amer. sl.
► TILL to labour after, to seek after, to provide; to get by effort, to obtain, acquire or earn by labour; later, to get, to obtain → a900 obs.
► VENT to search or seek for → 1574 obs.