[pɑːˈteɪk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- eat or drink (something)
(e.g: he partook of a well-earned drink)

- join in (an activity)
(e.g: visitors can partake in golfing or clay pigeon shooting)

- be characterized by (a quality)
(e.g: the birth of twins became an event which partook of the mythic)


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Origin:
mid 16th century: back-formation from earlier partaker ‘person who takes a part’