Synonyms of the word

adjure

• v. (often legal) To issue a formal command.
• v. To earnestly appeal or advise.

beseech

• v. To beg or implore (a person).
• v. To request or beg for.
• n. (archaic) A request.

bid

• v. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
• v. (transitive) To invite; to summon; to pray for; to offer.
• v. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
• v. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
• v. (transitive) To offer as a price.
• v. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
• v. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
• n. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
• n. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
• n. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

burden

• n. A heavy load.
• n. A responsibility, onus.
• n. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
• n. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
• n. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
• n. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
• n. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
• n. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
• v. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
• n. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
• n. The drone of a bagpipe.
• n. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

conjure

• v. (intransitive) To perform magic tricks.
• v. (transitive) To summon up using supernatural power, as a devil.
• v. (intransitive) To practice black magic.
• v. (transitive) To evoke.
• v. (transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire or plot.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

entreat

• n. Alternative form of entreaty.
• v. (obsolete) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
• v. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or…
• v. To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
• v. (obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
• v. (obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
• v. (obsolete) To make an earnest petition or request.

plead

• v. To present an argument, especially in a legal case.
• v. To beg, beseech, or implore.

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

saddle

• n. A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
• n. An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
• n. A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
• n. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
• n. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
• n. (mining) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, especially…
• n. The raised floorboard in a doorway.
• n. (construction) A small tapered or sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
• n. (nautical) A block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
• n. (engineering) A part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as…
• n. The clitellus of an earthworm.
• n. Any of the saddle-like markings on a boa constrictor.
• v. To put a saddle on an animal.
• v. To get into a saddle.
• v. (idiomatic) To burden or encumber.
• v. (idiomatic) To give a responsibility to someone.