Word Meanings - INTREAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTREAT)

• Crave
• Intreat
• implore
• beg
• ask
• beseech
• supplicate
• cry

Related words: (words related to INTREAT)

• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• BESEECH
  1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
• IMPLORER
  One who implores.
• IMPLORE
  To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought. Imploring all the
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER
• BESEECHING
  Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.
• BESEECHER
  One who beseeches.
• INTREATABLE
  Not to be entreated; inexorable.
• CRAVER
  One who craves or begs.
• CRAVE
  Etym: 1. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore. I crave your honor's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv.
• BESEECHMENT
  The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. Goodwin.
• INTREATANCE
  Entreaty. Holland.
• INTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. Spenser.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,