Synonyms of the word

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.

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).

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.

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.