beseech

Meaning of beseech

verb
  1. ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat.
    they beseeched him to stay
    ‘You have got to believe me,’ Violet beseeched him
    they earnestly beseeched his forgiveness

Middle English: from be- (as an intensifier) + Old English sēcan (see seek).

Information about beseech

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of beseech

be-seech

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • beseech is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

beseech synonyms

Meaning bid:

bid, entreat, adjure, press, conjure

Meaning beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something:

implore

Meaning ask someone earnestly or humbly for something:

beg

Meaning harass (someone) persistently for or to do something:

importune

Meaning strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something:

exhort

Meaning present a petition to (an authority) in respect of a particular cause:

petition

Meaning ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly:

supplicate

Meaning feel a powerful desire for (something):

crave

Meaning a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others:

prig

Meaning request fervently; beg for:

impetrate

Translation of beseech

Anagrams of beseech

beeches

Words that rhyme with beseech

eech, beech, wheech, keech, skeech, cleech, cowleech, fleech, foreleech, horseleech, leech, sleech, meech, smeech, penneech, afterspeech, bespeech, forespeech, interspeech, misspeech, morrowspeech, nonspeech, outspeech, overspeech, speech, Breech, bebreech, breech, reech, screech, unbreech, seech, yeech

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