ENTREAT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they entreat ... he / she / it entreats

Past simple: entreated

Past participle: entreated

-ing form: entreating

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ask for or request earnestly

Example:

The prophet bid all people to become good persons

Synonyms:

adjure; beseech; bid; conjure; entreat; press

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "entreat" is one way to...):

plead (appeal or request earnestly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Credits

Context examples:

He had always something to entreat the explanation of.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She spoke then, on being so entreated.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She instantly begged her sister would entreat Lady Middleton to take them home, as she was too miserable to stay a minute longer.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I shall entreat two others, two that you know not as yet; and I shall be ready to all our work show and our plans unfold.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I gave a cry of surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from coming up to me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He wrote again and again, begging, entreating, threatening, but his letters were ignored.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Show me, show me the path!" I entreated of Heaven.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had my head as in a vice, but I twined round him somehow, and stopped him for a moment, entreating him not to beat me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Let me entreat you never to think of him again, my dear Catherine; indeed he is unworthy of you.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Being one day abroad with my protector the sorrel nag, and the weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a river that was near.