entreat
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entreating, present participle; entreated, past tense; entreats, 3rd person singular present; entreated, past participle;
/enˈtrēt/,
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entreating, present participle; entreated, past tense; entreats, 3rd person singular present; entreated, past participle;
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Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something
- - his friends entreated him not to go
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Ask earnestly or anxiously for (something)
- - a message had been sent, entreating aid for the Navajos
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Treat (someone) in a specified manner
- - the King, I fear, hath ill entreated her
Web Definitions:
- bid: ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
- (entreaty) earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm"
- Entreat is a live album by The Cure, recorded at London's Wembley Arena in July 1989. It consists entirely of songs performed from the band's 1989 record Disintegration; while they were on their international Prayer Tour. Entreat was distributed exclusively in France as a promotional tool. ...
- Entreaty was a black New Zealand breeding mare. She bred twelve horses, one of which was the legendary Phar Lap. Entreaty's first foal, Fortune's Wheel, a filly by Night Raid, showed no potential as a racehorse. ...
- Alternative form of entreaty; To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use; 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; To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer ...
- (entreaty) The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation; A treatment; reception; entertainment
- (entreaty) earnest request or petition
- (Entreaty) Implore, beseech, and supplicate. The act of prayer.
- (entreaty) A treaty regarding nuclear proliferation. - e.g., The UN entreaty bans the use of nuclear weapons.
- (v) to ask earnestly or urgently; beseech; implore
- mistreat, or plead with or for.