betake

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To take over to; take across (to); deliver. obsolete,transitive
  2. To beteach. transitive
  3. To seize; lay hold of; take. obsolete,transitive
    — a rain-cloud [...] had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested [...].
  4. To take oneself to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse. literary,reflexive
    — One morning as I lay in my bed, a ſtrong motion vvas ſuddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London; I aroſe and betook me to the vvay, […]
  5. To commit to a specified action. archaic,reflexive
  6. To commend or entrust to; to commit to. archaic,transitive
  7. To take oneself. archaic,intransitive,often,poetic
    — Then do no further goe, no further stray, / But here lie downe, and to thy rest betake, / Th'ill to preuent, that life ensewen may. / For what hath life, that may it loued make, / And giues not rather cause it to forsake?

词形变化

betakes present,singular,third-person betaking participle,present betook past betaken participle,past betakes present,singular,third-person betaking participle,present betook past betaken participle,past

词汇关系

近义词
wend

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bitaken, equivalent to be- + take. Cognate with Danish betage (“to take, deprive, cut off”), Swedish beta (“to take, deprive, cut off”).
词源 2
From Middle English betaken, bitaken, in form equivalent to be- + take, however, in sense from betæcen, betechen (“to beteach”). More at beteach.
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