MEANING
To ask urgently and earnestly, often as a plea for help, mercy, or another person’s attention.
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He beseeched the guard to wait until the child was found.
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Word forms
- Base
- beseech
- Past tense
- beseeched or besought
- Past participle
- beseeched or besought
- Present participle
- beseeching
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- beseech
- Present continuous
- am/is/are beseeching
- Present perfect
- have/has beseeched or besought
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been beseeching
- Past
- beseeched or besought
- Past continuous
- was/were beseeching
- Past perfect
- had beseeched or besought
- Past perfect continuous
- had been beseeching
- Future
- will beseech
- Future continuous
- will be beseeching
- Future perfect
- will have beseeched or besought
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been beseeching
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