pray

pray is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as noun & verb, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Pry. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun & verb. See Pry.
2. intransitive verb. To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
3. transitive verb. To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
4. transitive verb. To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
5. transitive verb. To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
6. verb. call upon in supplication; entreat

   "I beg you to stop!"

   Synonyms: beg, implore

7. verb. address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer

   "pray to the Lord"

Synonyms

beg, implore

Common word forms

prays, prayed, prayer, prayful, praying, prayable

Words from these letters

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