Entreat

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  • intransitive verb. To make an earnest request of (someone). synonym: beg.
  • intransitive verb. To ask for earnestly; petition for.
  • intransitive verb. To deal with; treat.
  • intransitive verb. To make an earnest request or petition.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Entreaty; prayer.
  • To treat, use, or manage; deal with; act toward.
  • To partake of; enjoy.
  • To ask earnestly; beseech; petition with urgency; supplicate; solicit pressingly; importune.
  • To prevail on by prayer or solicitation; persuade or cause to yield by entreaty.
  • Synonyms Ask, Request, Beg, etc. See ask. See list under beseech.
  • To treat of something; discourse.
  • To treat with another or others; negotiate.
  • To make an earnest petition or request.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Entreaty.
  • intransitive verb. To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
  • intransitive verb. To make an earnest petition or request.
  • transitive verb. To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
  • transitive verb. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
  • transitive verb. To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
  • transitive verb. To invite; to entertain.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Alternative form of entreaty.
  • verb. To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
  • verb. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
  • verb. To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
  • verb. To invite; to entertain.
  • verb. To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
  • verb. To make an earnest petition or request.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. ask for or request earnestly
  • Word Usage
    "Do not therefore, I again entreat you, my dear friend, be uneasy."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    plead  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adjure  appeal  appeal to  ask  beg  
    verb-form