MEANING
To plead or petition in an earnest, humble manner.
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Words that belong together
- supplicate for mercy
- supplicate a ruler
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The prisoners supplicated for mercy without knowing who would read the petition.
She would not supplicate the patron whose generosity had become a threat.
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Word forms
- Base
- supplicate
- Past tense
- supplicated
- Past participle
- supplicated
- Present participle
- supplicating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- supplicate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are supplicating
- Present perfect
- have/has supplicated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been supplicating
- Past
- supplicated
- Past continuous
- was/were supplicating
- Past perfect
- had supplicated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been supplicating
- Future
- will supplicate
- Future continuous
- will be supplicating
- Future perfect
- will have supplicated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been supplicating
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Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: supplicate; supplicates; supplicated; supplicated; supplicating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: supplicates.
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