entreat
entreat is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
- transitive verb. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
- transitive verb. To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
- transitive verb. To invite; to entertain.
- intransitive verb. To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
- intransitive verb. To make an earnest petition or request.
- noun. Entreaty.
- verb. ask for or request earnestly
"The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
Synonyms
adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in entreat:
ratteen, tarente, ternate, tetrane
Common word forms
entreats, entreated, entreater, entreatful, entreating, entreatable, entreatment
Words from these letters
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