beseech
Meaning of beseech
verb
- 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:
Meaning ask someone earnestly or humbly for something:
Meaning harass (someone) persistently for or to do something:
Meaning strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something:
Meaning present a petition to (an authority) in respect of a particular cause:
Meaning ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly:
Meaning feel a powerful desire for (something):
Meaning a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others:
Meaning request fervently; beg for:
Translation of beseech
- Spanish: suplicar
- French: supplier
- Italian: supplicare
- Portuguese: rogar
Anagrams of beseech
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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