单词 | beseech |
释义 | beseech/bɪˈsiːtʃ /verb (past and past participle besought /bɪˈsɔːt/ or beseeched) [reporting verb] literary Ask someone urgently and fervently to do or give something: [with object and infinitive]: they beseeched him to stay [with object and direct speech]: ‘You have got to believe me,’ Violet beseeched him [with object]: they earnestly beseeched his forgiveness...
Synonyms implore, beg, entreat, importune, plead with, appeal to, exhort, ask urgently, petition, call on, supplicate, pray to, adjure; crave, appeal for Scottish archaic prig rare obsecrate, impetrate, obtest Derivativesbeseechingly
OriginMiddle English: from be- (as an intensifier) + Old English sēcan (see seek). Rhymes |
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