Choose the Right Synonym for beseech

beg, entreat, beseech, implore, supplicate, adjure, importune mean to ask urgently. beg suggests earnestness or insistence in the asking. they begged for help entreat implies an effort to persuade or to overcome resistance. entreated me to join them beseech and implore imply a deeply felt anxiety. I beseech you to have mercy implored her not to leave him supplicate suggests a posture of humility. with bowed heads they supplicated their Lord adjure implies advising as well as pleading. we were adjured to tell the truth importune suggests an annoying persistence in trying to break down resistance to a request. importuning viewers for contributions

Examples of beseech in a Sentence

parishioners ardently beseeched the local bishop not to close their beloved church

Recent Examples on the Web The standoff eventually prompted Akleh’s brother, sitting on a man’s shoulders, to beseech the crowd to let the hearse through. — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022 Health officials and experts continue to beseech Americans that the most effective way to avoid hospitalization is through vaccination. — Travis Caldwell, CNN, 4 Jan. 2022 The texts showed Hannity pleading with Trump to beseech the rioters to prevent CNN from reaping ratings gold. — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021 On Monday, dozens of doctors and hospital employees in Palm Beach County gathered for an early morning news conference to beseech the unvaccinated to get shots, emphasizing that the surge was overwhelming the health care system and destroying lives. — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021 Ghosts and forest spirits warn him of his doom and beseech him to turn around. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2021 Acting Mayor Kim Janey appeared with transit advocates Monday to beseech the MBTA Fiscal Management and Control Board to restore service levels on the bus and subway systems that were reduced as ridership plummeted amid the COVID-19 pandemic. — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021 In her misery, the queen beseeched the priest Kentigern to help her. — Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2020 Some campaigns still were sending out emails before Tuesday night’s first quarter FEC deadline, beseeching donors for cash. — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020 See More

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