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Implore

To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought.

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Crave 76% connected

To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.

Importune 76% connected

To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Insist 76% connected

To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.

Supplicate 76% connected

To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 1

Plead 76% connected

of Plead

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Synonym 2

Beg 92% connected

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Pray 92% connected

See Pry.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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