betake oneself to

verb

Roget 266: travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk etc. n.; have a run; take the air.    flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate^†; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize^†, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.    walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.    take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk^†, frisk, caracoler^†, caracole; gallop etc. (move quickly) 274.    [start riding] embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway.    peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.    go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.    ... show more

Roget 625: 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 etc. n.; undertake etc. 676; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with etc. (do) 680.    office, place, post, chargeship^†, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service etc. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking etc. 676.    drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business etc. n.; keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work.    officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve the office of, discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the duties of, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio, hold a place, hold a situation.    be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full etc. (activity) 682.    be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one's hands.    ... show more

Roget 676: undertake; engage in, embark in; launch into, plunge into; volunteer; apprentice oneself to; engage etc. (promise) 768; contract etc. 769; take upon oneself, take upon one's shoulders; devote oneself to etc. (determination) 604.    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 one's etc. 66; broach one's, institute one's etc. (originate) 153; put one's hand to the plow, lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel.    have in hand etc. (business) 625; have many irons in the fire etc. (activity) 682.    ... show more

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