MEANING
To ask someone urgently or earnestly for something.
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Words that belong together
- entreat someone to stay
- entreat forgiveness
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She entreated him to wait until morning.
The prisoner entreated the council for one more hearing.
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Word forms
- Base
- entreat
- Past tense
- entreated
- Past participle
- entreated
- Present participle
- entreating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- entreat
- Present continuous
- am/is/are entreating
- Present perfect
- have/has entreated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been entreating
- Past
- entreated
- Past continuous
- was/were entreating
- Past perfect
- had entreated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been entreating
- Future
- will entreat
- Future continuous
- will be entreating
- Future perfect
- will have entreated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been entreating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: entreat; entreats; entreated; entreated; entreating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: entreats.
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