entreated
past simple and past participle ofentreat
entreat
verb[T]
uk/ɪnˈtriːt/us/ɪnˈtriːt/totryvery hard topersuadesomeone to do something:
[+ to infinitive]We wouldspendeverymealtimeentreating thechildtoeathervegetables.
Synonyms
adjureformal
appeal(REQUEST)
beg
beseechold useorliterary
plead(REQUEST)
to beg for something or beg someone to do something
- begHe begged her to stay, but she wouldn't listen.
- imploreI implore you to change your mind.
- plead withHe pleaded with the guards to be allowed to see his daughter.
- appeal toI appeal to the public to remain calm.
- entreatThe banners entreated the government to release the prisoners.
- adjureThe gospel adjures us to love one another.
Making appeals & requests
- appellate
- ask forsomeone
- behest
- beseech
- call for orderphrase
- call onsomeone
- callsomeonein
- claim
- demand
- implore
- invite
- pay claim
- pretty pleaseidiom
- propitiation
- push
- push forsomething
- put in forsomething
- put the squeeze onsomeoneidiom
- reapply
- requisition
Examplesofentreated
entreated
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
For example, people wereentreatedto do as they were told.
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Accordingly, the traditional limits of the ' ' political questions ' ' doctrine are rejected, while courts areentreatedto advance group rights and multiculturalism by undermining established notions of sovereignty and citizenship.
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Employers have been abjectlyentreatedto allow their men to go, and in certain cases half-crowns have been offered.
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Three times he hasentreatedme to listen and to consider and reflect on an amendment.
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We haveentreatedthem to take certain action.
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I haveentreatedhim on many occasions to take it.
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Is it not a fact that in the notification to the mui tsai they are told that if they areentreatedthey can come out, although there be no accommodation?
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He saved the sultan's daughter from an unwanted marriage after sheentreatedhim, as her blood brother, to help her.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The wood-carving now, in turn, became his aversion; and having in vainentreatedhis masters to set him free, he went on strike.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He stayed in the fireplace for a while and did not go out till some villagersentreatedhim to go out.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We haveentreatedand our entreaties have been disregarded.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His friendsentreateda bomoh (shaman) to heal him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Muirenn was pregnant at the time andentreatedthe saint to relent.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned; we haveentreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded; we have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We allentreatedhim to write them down and in 1976 he did so, producing one of the most enchanting - and hilarious - books about the picture business ever written...
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