betake
to cause to go (usually used reflexively): She betook herself to town.
Archaic. to resort or have recourse to.
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How to use betake in a sentence
Now King Harald bade a warlock betake him to Iceland in one or other guise, that he might bring him back tidings of the country.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonThe danger now was that a Spanish army would seize Madrid, and thither the French army must betake itself.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan SloaneLet them sink all our sailing vessels, we will betake ourselves to tugs.
The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon | Newell Dwight HillisSo I determined to betake myself to Germany, there to study medicine and, as opportunity offered, other sciences also.
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. | Solomon MaimonTherefore did the conscientious driver of the piety-quill betake himself to some new field.
The Fiend's Delight | Dod Grile
British Dictionary definitions for betake
/ (bɪˈteɪk) /
betake oneself to go; move
archaic to apply (oneself) to
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