ENTREAT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for ENTREAT?

Need another word that means the same as “entreat”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “entreat” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Entreat” are: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press, implore, beg, plead with, supplicate, pray, ask, request

Entreat as a Verb

Definitions of "Entreat" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “entreat” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.
• Ask for or request earnestly.
• Treat (someone) in a specified manner.
• Ask earnestly or anxiously for (something.

Synonyms of "Entreat" as a verb (12 Words)

adjure	Urge or request (someone) solemnly or earnestly to do something. I adjure you to tell me the truth.
ask	Require or ask for as a price or condition. How much further I asked.
beg	Acquire food or money from someone by begging. Beg the point in the discussion.
beseech	Ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat. They earnestly beseeched his forgiveness.
bid	Make a statement during the auction undertaking to make a certain number of tricks with a stated suit as trumps if the bid is successful and one becomes the declarer. She s now bidding to become a top female model.
conjure	Implore (someone) to do something. Anne conjured up a delicious home made hotpot.
implore	Call upon in supplication; entreat. I implore mercy.
plead with	Appeal or request earnestly.
pray	Address a prayer to God or another deity. The whole family are praying for Michael.
press	Manufacture something especially a record by moulding under pressure. Her body pressed against his.
request	Politely or formally ask for. He received the information he had requested.
supplicate	Ask humbly (for something. The plutocracy supplicated to be made peers.

Usage Examples of "Entreat" as a verb

• His friends entreated him not to go.
• The King, I fear, hath ill entreated her.
• A message had been sent, entreating aid for the Navahos.

Associations of "Entreat" (30 Words)

adjure	Command solemnly. I adjure you to tell me the truth.
appeal	Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection. An appeal to the public to keep calm.
ask	Require or ask for as a price or condition. He asked to see the officer involved.
asking	The verbal act of requesting.
beg	Acquire food or money from someone by begging. I must beg of you not to act impulsively.
beseech	Ask for or request earnestly. They earnestly beseeched his forgiveness.
cadge	A padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field. He cadged fivers off old school friends.
conjure	Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic. He conjured wild birds in the air.
demand	The act of demanding. A complex activity demanding detailed knowledge.
entreaty	An earnest or humble request. An entreaty to stop the fighting.
exhortation	A communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action. Exhortations to consumers to switch off electrical appliances.
implore	Beg earnestly for. He implored her to change her mind.
invitation	A tempting allurement. An invitation to lunch.
invite	Invite someone to one s house. Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night.
necessary	(of an agent) having no independent volition. A necessary consequence.
perforce	Used to express necessity or inevitability. Amateurs perforce have to settle for less expensive solutions.
petition	Reverent petition to a deity. The Act allowed couples to petition for divorce after one year of marriage.
plea	A formal statement by or on behalf of a defendant or prisoner, stating guilt or innocence in response to a charge, offering an allegation of fact, or claiming that a point of law should apply. He changed his plea to not guilty.
plead	Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts. He pleaded family commitments as a reason for not attending.
please	Used to express incredulity or irritation. This is the first time in ages that I can just please myself.
pray	Address a deity a prophet a saint or an object of worship say a prayer. After several days of rain we were praying for sun.
prayer	A religious service, especially a regular one, at which people gather in order to pray together. I ll say a prayer for him.
request	A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority. Human intelligence which is in constant request in a family.
require	Require as useful just or proper. The care and diligence required of him as a trustee.
solicit	Make a solicitation or entreaty for something request urgently or persistently. Historians and critics are solicited for opinions by the auction houses.
solicitation	Request for a sum of money. People objected to receiving telephone solicitations.
suppliant	One praying humbly for something. A suppliant for her favors.
supplicant	One praying humbly for something. We are equals and not supplicants begging for work.
supplicate	Ask humbly (for something. The plutocracy supplicated to be made peers.
woo	Try to gain the love of (someone), especially with a view to marriage. He wooed her with quotes from Shakespeare.