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单词 beseech
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Definition of beseech in English:

beseech

verbbesought, beseeched bɪˈsiːtʃbəˈsitʃ
literary
  • reporting verb Ask someone urgently and fervently to do or give something.

    with object and infinitive they beseeched him to stay
    with object and direct speech ‘You have got to believe me,’ Violet beseeched him
    with object they earnestly beseeched his forgiveness
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After his last Hindi film, many of his colleagues have been beseeching him to make a commercial Hindi film.
    • I write countless numbers of letters begging and beseeching on behalf of patients.
    • Starving, beseeching Third World faces stared from arid landscapes into the greenery and chubby cheeks of the First World.
    • Her unfortunate father, while tears poured from his eyes, went about the city beseeching the townspeople for money to hire an attorney who in the least would provide his daughter with a line of defense.
    • In short he beseeches them to consider what they were and what they have become.
    • People who pray tend to beseech their deity for some kind of enrichment or advancement.
    • The forlorn gazes of the people beseeched them to give them solace, to end their pain.
    • The grieved king besought heaven and earth to make his daughter whole again.
    • It was his way of beseeching us to intercede and vote for his salvation.
    • But his mother had beseeched and pleaded with him until he felt that he must go.
    • Willow suddenly clutched my arm to her, her voice hushed but urgent, her eyes beseeching me; ‘Do not leave my side!’
    • The son brings a small mound of rice, water, and flowers or fruit, and beseeches his forebears to keep their protective watch over the family and its fortunes.
    • His friends urgently besought him while there was yet time to flee the country. ‘I have just been abroad… one can't keep on going abroad unless one is a missionary, or, what comes to the same thing, a commercial traveller ’, was his response.
    • In an agony of panic at this point, I beseeched her to tell me whether I needed medical attention.
    • A voice at the other end gives details of a medical emergency, and beseeches the doctor to come at once to the hospital.
    • In the weeks and months to come, we will hear the voices of well-meaning people beseeching the victor to compromise with the vanquished.
    • Gone are the soulful melodies unleashed by a thousand musicians, who were beseeching the rain god to show mercy.
    • I pictured some hopeful bachelor, going down on one knee and beseeching his love to be his forever.
    • He beseeched the help of all civilized countries in combating trafficking of humans for prostitution and offered 15 billion dollars to fight AIDS in Africa.
    • ‘Please Alex, we beg of you, don't,’ he beseeched imploringly.
    Synonyms
    implore, beg, entreat, importune, plead with, appeal to, exhort, ask urgently, petition, call on, supplicate, pray to, adjure
    crave, appeal for
    Scottish archaic prig
    rare obsecrate, impetrate, obtest

Derivatives

  • beseechingly

  • adverbbɪˈsiːtʃɪŋlibəˈsitʃɪŋli
    literary
    • He pleaded sweetly, shaking his clasped hands at her beseechingly.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And Arthur, looking overwhelmed, turning his eyes on her beseechingly, saying, ‘Tell me it's not real.’
      • He called as loudly and beseechingly as possible, ‘Please help me!’
      • He pouted at me and said beseechingly, ‘Come here?’
      • She gazed up at him beseechingly. ‘I do not wish our wedding to be spoiled by anything; least of all Papa's disapproval.’

Origin

Middle English: from be- (as an intensifier) + Old English sēcan (see seek).

Rhymes

beach, beech, bleach, breach, breech, each, impeach, leach, leech, outreach, peach, pleach, preach, reach, screech, speech, teach
 
 

Definition of beseech in US English:

beseech

verbbəˈsēCHbəˈsitʃ
literary
  • reporting verb Ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat.

    with object and infinitive they beseeched him to stay
    with object and direct speech “You have got to believe me,” Gloria beseeched him
    with object they earnestly beseeched his forgiveness
    a beseeching gaze
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the weeks and months to come, we will hear the voices of well-meaning people beseeching the victor to compromise with the vanquished.
    • Willow suddenly clutched my arm to her, her voice hushed but urgent, her eyes beseeching me; ‘Do not leave my side!’
    • A voice at the other end gives details of a medical emergency, and beseeches the doctor to come at once to the hospital.
    • I pictured some hopeful bachelor, going down on one knee and beseeching his love to be his forever.
    • ‘Please Alex, we beg of you, don't,’ he beseeched imploringly.
    • The grieved king besought heaven and earth to make his daughter whole again.
    • Gone are the soulful melodies unleashed by a thousand musicians, who were beseeching the rain god to show mercy.
    • In short he beseeches them to consider what they were and what they have become.
    • Her unfortunate father, while tears poured from his eyes, went about the city beseeching the townspeople for money to hire an attorney who in the least would provide his daughter with a line of defense.
    • People who pray tend to beseech their deity for some kind of enrichment or advancement.
    • But his mother had beseeched and pleaded with him until he felt that he must go.
    • It was his way of beseeching us to intercede and vote for his salvation.
    • The forlorn gazes of the people beseeched them to give them solace, to end their pain.
    • The son brings a small mound of rice, water, and flowers or fruit, and beseeches his forebears to keep their protective watch over the family and its fortunes.
    • In an agony of panic at this point, I beseeched her to tell me whether I needed medical attention.
    • After his last Hindi film, many of his colleagues have been beseeching him to make a commercial Hindi film.
    • He beseeched the help of all civilized countries in combating trafficking of humans for prostitution and offered 15 billion dollars to fight AIDS in Africa.
    • His friends urgently besought him while there was yet time to flee the country. ‘I have just been abroad… one can't keep on going abroad unless one is a missionary, or, what comes to the same thing, a commercial traveller ’, was his response.
    • Starving, beseeching Third World faces stared from arid landscapes into the greenery and chubby cheeks of the First World.
    • I write countless numbers of letters begging and beseeching on behalf of patients.
    Synonyms
    implore, beg, entreat, importune, plead with, appeal to, exhort, ask urgently, petition, call on, supplicate, pray to, adjure

Origin

Middle English: from be- (as an intensifier) + Old English sēcan (see seek).

 
 
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