Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun & verb
See Pry.
- 2intransitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
- 4transitive verb
To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
- 5transitive verb
To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
- 6verb
call upon in supplication; entreat
"I beg you to stop!"
- 7verb
address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer
"pray to the Lord"
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