to intreat

Examples

• All

• Intreat your friend to consider joining us for dinner.

• Intreat her to help you with the difficult task ahead.

• Like Rockmother read in her book of Ruth: Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge....

  Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

A

to ask

vsto intreat

∞ 1.0

To request information or an answer from someone

is an anxious earnest appeal rather than a neutral question

B

to beg

vsto intreat

417 1.0

Ask someone very seriously and urgently for something

is an older, more anxious form rather than a plain plea

P

to pray

vsto intreat

• Archaic

256 1.6

To beg someone urgently and humbly for something

is more anxious and less humble in tone

S

to solicit

vsto intreat

• Formal

48 6.8

To ask people for something, often in a formal or persistent way

is archaic and anxious rather than formal or legal sounding

B

to beseech

vsto intreat

• Formal

47 8.2

To ask someone earnestly for something

is more anxious and less fervent in tone

I

to implore

vsto intreat

• Formal

40 5.3

To ask someone very seriously to do or not do something

is an anxious earnest plea rather than desperate pleading

E

to entreat

vsto intreat

• Formal

12 8.1

Ask someone in a serious, emotional way to do something

is the archaic form used for the same earnest request

T

to thig

vsto intreat

• Archaic

9.9

To ask people for things like food or money in a strong, repeated way

is archaic standard usage rather than dialectal scots

How Earnest

to implore

• Formal

40 5.3

to beg

417 1.0

to intreat

• Archaic

9.9

to request

∞ 1.0

to ask

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology