Beseech

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To address an earnest or urgent request to; implore: beseech them for help.
  • v. To request earnestly; beg for: beseech help. See Synonyms at beg.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To beg or implore.
  • n. A request.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
  • n. Solicitation; supplication.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To entreat; supplicate; implore; ask or pray with urgency: followed by a personal object.
  • To beg eagerly for; solicit: followed by the thing solicited.
  • Synonyms Ask, Request, Beg, etc. (see ask), plead for or with, petition, conjure, appeal to.
  • n. A request: as, “such submiss beseeches,”
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. ask for or request earnestly
  • Verb Form
    beseeched    beseeches    beseeching    besought   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    plead   
    Variant
    besought   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beg    crave    solicitation    supplication    ask   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beach    Peach    Teach    beach    beech    bleach    breach    breech    creach    each