SOUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sought mean? 

• SOUGHT (adjective)
  The adjective SOUGHT has 2 senses:

1. that is looked for

2. being searched for

  Familiarity information: SOUGHT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That is looked for

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

the long sought relatives

Participle:

seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being searched for

Synonyms:

sought; sought-after

Context example:

the most sought-after item was the silver candelabrum

Similar:

wanted (desired or wished for or sought)

 Context examples 

And what is the third source from which each of them sought for help against pressing danger?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My eye sought Helen, and feared to find death.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He sought always for the principle that lay behind and beneath.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Their acquaintance was exceedingly sought after.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

To know Fanny to be sought in marriage by a man of fortune, raised her, therefore, very much in her opinion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

With these feelings, she rather dreaded than sought for the first view of that well-known spire which would announce her within twenty miles of home.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We then sought for Skinsky, but were unable to find him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I knew it, readily, to be the figure that we sought.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She knew nothing about it, and sought the key, but it was gone.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Your mistress, I fear, is ill, Agatha,” he said to the tire-woman, when the Lady Maude had sought her chamber.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)