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Betake Oneself

Definition: Betake Oneself

Betake Oneself

Verb

1. Displace oneself; go from one location to another.

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Synonyms within Context: Betake Oneself

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Business

Verb: pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business; Noun: undertake; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with; (do).

Journey

Go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.

Undertaking

Take up, take in hand; tackle; set about, go about; set to, fall to, set to work; launch forth; set up shop; put in hand, put in execution; set forward; break the neck of a business, be in, for; put one's hand to, put one's foot in; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, go to do; begin; broach, institute; one's (originate); put one's hand to the plow, lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel.

Use

Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expressions: Betake Oneself

Expressions using "betake oneself": betake oneself to betake oneself to one's heels. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Betake Oneself

Language Translations for "betake oneself"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

jepem (be addicted, be given, betake oneself to, give up, succumb, surrender). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

повличам се (begin to creep, go). (various references)

   

French

  

se rendre , se réfugier , avoir l'intention. (various references)

   

German

  

sich begeben (adjourn to, befall, betake, betaken, come to pass, go, proceed, repair, resort). (various references)

   

Italian

  

recarsi (go, resort), dirigersi (bear, head, make, steer, strike out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etakebay oneselfay

   

Romanian

  

recurge la (apply to, fall back upon, have recourse to, interpose, repair to, take to). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отправляться (betake, depart, get a move on, go, proceed, set forth, shove off). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yolunu tutmak (betake oneself to, make tracks for, strike, take the road), gitmek (apply, betake oneself to, bugger off, depart, fare, give, go, go away, go together, head, head for, hop it, hop off, repair, resort, roll, run, steer for, step, strike out, take one's way, take to, to go, turn to, wend one's way, work in with). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Betake Oneself

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-f-k-l-n-o-s-t"

-4 letters: beefaloes, beefsteak, enfeebles, keelboats.

-5 letters: absentee, beefalos, betokens, blankest, blankets, bleakest, enfeeble, feeblest, felstone, kanteles, keelboat, nestable, notables, selenate, skeleton, steenbok, stonable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Betake Oneself


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 74 61 6B 65      4F 6E 65 73 65 6C 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01001111 01101110 01100101 01110011 01100101 01101100 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#116 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#101 &#108 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0074 0061 006B 0065      004F 006E 0065 0073 0065 006C 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367186677771249807185717872

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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