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All entreat synonyms

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verb entreat

  • plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
  • implore — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
  • beg — If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it.
  • pray — to offer devout petition, praise, thanks, etc., to (God or an object of worship).
  • beseech — If you beseech someone to do something, you ask them very eagerly and anxiously.
  • ask — If you ask someone something, you say something to them in the form of a question because you want to know the answer.
  • 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.
  • blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
  • coax — If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it.
  • conjure — If you conjure something out of nothing, you make it appear as if by magic.
  • crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
  • enjoin — Instruct or urge (someone) to do something.
  • importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
  • invoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
  • pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
  • 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.
  • plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
  • press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
  • supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
  • urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
  • wheedle — to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts: We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent.
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