| 单词 | supplicate |
| 释义 | supplicate (once / 1016 pages) v If you don’t get the grade you were hoping for on your paper, you could try to rewrite it, or you could meet with your teacher and supplicate. Your humble requests for an ‘A’ may or may not work. This verb is derived from the Latin supplicare, “to kneel.” People often supplicate to God for help in the form of prayer, or supplicate to a judge for a lesser sentence. It is usually an earnest petition made to an authority figure and can be perfectly respectable or can be somewhat pitiful, like begging. WORD FAMILYsupplicate: supplicated, supplicates, supplicating, supplication, supplicatory+/suppliant: suppliantly, suppliants, supplicate/supplication: supplications USAGE EXAMPLESSo dire was Britain's economic predicament that it had been humiliatingly obliged to supplicate for a loan from the International Monetary Fund. US News(Jul 14, 2016) Simultaneous with the lawsuit against the NYSAC, supporters and promoters continued searching the country, supplicating cities and their officials to allow Ali to fight. Slate(Jun 06, 2016) I leave it to others to explain what it means when a man is bullying toward essentially good people and supplicating toward bad ones. Wall Street Journal(Jul 16, 2015) 1v ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer supplicate God's blessing Hyper bespeak, call for, quest, request express the need or desire for; ask for 2v make a humble, earnest petition supplicate for permission Hyper petition write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing 3v ask humbly (for something) He supplicated the King for clemency Hyper beg, implore, pray call upon in supplication; entreat |
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