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All adjure synonyms

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verb adjure

  • beseech — If you beseech someone to do something, you ask them very eagerly and anxiously.
  • require — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
  • implore — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
  • charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
  • obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
  • supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
  • order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
  • command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
  • direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
  • demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
  • insist — to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
  • appeal — If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them.
  • plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
  • beg — If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it.
  • request — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
  • petition — a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
  • call — a demand for redeemable bonds or shares to be presented for repayment
  • importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
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