Beseech - English meaning

verb

Urge or request (someone) solemnly or earnestly to do something.

Usage examples:

I adjure you to tell me the truth

verb

To ask or order someone to do something

Usage examples:

The judge adjured him to answer truthfully.

verb

Ask someone earnestly or humbly for something.

Usage examples:

He begged his fellow passengers for help

verb

To make a very strong and urgent request

Usage examples:

They begged for mercy., [ + speech ] "please, please forgive me!" she begged (him)., [ + obj + to i…

verb

To ask for food or money because you are poor

Usage examples:

There are more and more homeless people begging on the streets these days., she had to beg for mone…

verb

Feel a powerful desire for (something).

Usage examples:

If only she had shown her daughter the love she craved

verb

To desire something strongly

Usage examples:

The neglected kids just crave attention.

verb

To have a very strong feeling of wanting something

Usage examples:

Crave attention many young children crave attention.

verb

Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.

Usage examples:

His friends entreated him not to go

verb

To try very hard to persuade someone to do something

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] we would spend every meal time entreating the child to eat her vegetables.

verb

Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

I exhorted her to be a good child

verb

To strongly encourage or persuade someone to do something

Usage examples:

She exhorted all of us to do our very best.

verb

To strongly encourage or try to persuade someone to do something

Usage examples:

Exhort someone to do something the governor exhorted the prisoners not to riot.

verb

Request fervently; beg for.

Usage examples:

A slight testimonial which i thought fit to impetrate from that worthy nobleman

verb

Beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.

Usage examples:

He implored her to change her mind

verb

To ask someone in a determined, sincere, and sometimes emotional way to do or not to do something, or to ask for something in this way

Usage examples:

She implored him not to leave her.

verb

Harass (someone) persistently for or to do something.

Usage examples:

Reporters importuned him with pointed questions

verb

To entreat (a person) earnestly; to implore, beseech, supplicate; to beg (a thing).

noun

A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority in respect of a particular cause.

Usage examples:

She was asked to sign a petition against plans to build on the local playing fields

verb

Present a petition to (an authority) in respect of a particular cause.

Usage examples:

The organization is petitioning the eu for a moratorium on the patent

noun

A document signed by a large number of people requesting some action from the government or another authority, or law a formal letter to a court of law requesting a particular legal action

Usage examples:

More than 2000 people signed a petition to protect a wildlife area from development., law she’s fil…

noun

A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others.

Usage examples:

She was religious but not a prig

noun

A person who obeys the rules of correct behaviour and considers himself or herself to be morally better than other people

verb

Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly.

Usage examples:

The plutocracy supplicated to be made peers

verb

To ask for something in a humble way

Usage examples:

I knew i could not go on supplicating for more.