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| Main Entry: | beg |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | abjure, advocate, ask, beseech, besiege, canvass, conjure, crave, desire, entreat, implore, importune, invoke, nag, petition, plead, pray, press, requisition, solicit, sue, supplicate, urge, woo, worry, apply to, call to, impetrate, obsecrate, obtest |
| Antonyms: | answer |
| Main Entry: | beg |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | seek charity |
| Synonyms: | benefit, bite*, brace, bum*, burn*, buzz*, cadge*, chisel*, ding*, hustle, knock, mooch*, nick*, panhandle, score*, scrounge, sponge*, tap, touch, want, ask alms, call on, call upon, clamor for, dime up, freeload*, hit up, live hand to mouth, mendicate, nickel up, pass the hat, put the bite on, put the touch on, solicit charity, sponge on |
| Antonyms: | give |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | address, adjure, advance, apply, ask, beg, beseech, bid, call, claim, contest, crave, demand, entreat, implore, importune, petition, plead, pray, propose, proposition, question, refer, require, solicit, strike, submit, sue, supplicate, urge, call upon, hit on, resort to |
| Antonyms: | deny, disclaim, recall, refuse, renounce, retract, revoke |
| Main Entry: | ask |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | angle, appeal, apply, beg, beseech, bite*, bum*, call for, charge, claim, command, crave, demand, entreat, hit*, hustle*, implore, impose, knock*, levy, mooch*, order, petition, plead, pray, promote*, request, requisition, seek, solicit, sue, supplicate, touch*, urge, contend for, file for |
| Antonyms: | answer, claim, command, insist, tell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | borrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take for temporary use |
| Synonyms: | accept loan of, acquire, beg, bite, bum, cadge*, chisel*, give a note for, hire, hit up, lift, mooch*, negotiate, obtain, pawn, pledge, raise money, rent, run into debt, scrounge, see one's uncle, soak, sponge, take on loan, tap, touch, use temporarily |
| Antonyms: | give, lend, pay, return |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conjure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | appeal to, implore |
| Synonyms: | adjure, ask, beg, beseech, brace, crave, entreat, importune, pray, supplicate, urge |
| Antonyms: | disgust, turn off |
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask strongly for something |
| Synonyms: | abuse, appeal, apply, arrogate, badger, beg, beseech, besiege, bid, challenge, charge, cite, claim, coerce, command, compel, constrain, direct, enjoin, entreat, exact, expect, force, hit, implore, importune, inquire, interrogate, knock, nag, necessitate, oblige, order, pester, petition, postulate, pray, press, question, request, require, requisition, solicit, stipulate, summon, supplicate, tax, urge, clamor for, counterclaim, dun, hit up, impetrate, insist on, sue for, whistle for |
| Antonyms: | give, grant, offer, reply |
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask, request |
| Synonyms: | beg, bespeak, entreat, importune, petition, seek, solicit |
| Antonyms: | answer |
| Main Entry: | entreat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plead with |
| Synonyms: | ask, beg, beseech, blandish, coax, conjure, crave, enjoin, exhort, implore, importune, invoke, pester, petition, plague, pray, press, request, supplicate, urge, wheedle, appeal to |
| Antonyms: | answer, command, demand |
| Main Entry: | get |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | convince, induce |
| Synonyms: | beg, bring around, coax, compel, draw, influence, persuade, press, pressure, prompt, provoke, sway, urge, wheedle, argue into, prevail upon, talk into, win over |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
| Main Entry: | grovel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abase, demean oneself |
| Synonyms: | apple-polish, beg, beg for mercy, beseech, blandish, bootlick*, bow and scrape, brown-nose, butter up*, cater to, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, eat crow*, eat dirt, eat humble pie, fall all over, fawn*, flatter, humble oneself, humor, implore, kiss one's feet, kneel, kowtow*, make much of, make up to, pamper, play up to, prostrate*, revere, snivel, soft-soap, stoop, suck up to, truckle*, wheedle, yes* |
| Antonyms: | boast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | importune |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand, insist |
| Synonyms: | appeal, ask, badger, beg, beseech, beset, besiege, con*, crave, egg on*, entreat, harass, hound*, implore, invoke, nag, persuade, pester, plague, plead, pray, press, sell, solicit, supplicate, urge, dun, goose*, work on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask to do something socially |
| Synonyms: | allure, attract, beg, bid, bring on, call, command, countenance, court, draw, encourage, entice, entreat, insist, inveigle, invitation, issue, lead, lure, persuade, petition, ply, pray, press, prevail on, propose, provoke, request, solicit, suggest, summon, supplicate, tempt, toll, urge, vamp, welcome, woo, appeal to, give invitation, have in, have over, include as guest, send invitation |
| Antonyms: | reject |
| Main Entry: | invoke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call upon |
| Synonyms: | adjure, beg, beseech, conjure, crave, entreat, implore, importune, petition, plead, pray, request, solicit, summon, supplicate, appeal to, call forth, send for |
| Notes: | invoke is to call upon or appeal to something or someone for help or inspiration, while evoke is to bring or call something to the conscious mind; evoke is from Latin evocare 'to call out' while invoke is from invocare 'to call on' |
| Main Entry: | mooch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cadge |
| Synonyms: | beg, borrow, bum*, scrounge, sponge, bumoff, freeload, leach off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | petition |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plead, appeal for |
| Synonyms: | adjure, ask, beg, beseech, entreat, implore, pray, press, request, seek, solicit, sue, supplicate, urge, call upon, impetrate, put in for |
| Main Entry: | press |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pressure, trouble |
| Synonyms: | afflict, assail, beg, beset, besiege, come at, compel, constrain, demand, depress, disquiet, enjoin, entreat, exhort, force, harass, implore, importune, oppress, petition, plague, plead, push, railroad*, sadden, sell, squeeze, sue, supplicate, torment, urge, vex, weigh down, worry, buttonhole*, insist on, lean on, pressurize, work on |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | request |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask for |
| Synonyms: | appeal, apply, beg, beseech, bespeak, call for, demand, desire, entreat, hit, hustle*, inquire, petition, pray, promote, requisition, seek, solicit, sponge*, sue, supplicate, touch, hit up for, hold out for, put in for |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | require |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask, demand; necessitate |
| Synonyms: | beg, beseech, bid, call for, cause, challenge, claim, command, compel, constrain, crave, demand, direct, enjoin, entail, exact, expect, instruct, involve, obligate, oblige, order, postulate, request, requisition, solicit, take, assert oneself, call upon, insist upon, look for, push for |
| Main Entry: | seek |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask, inquire |
| Synonyms: | beg, entreat, find out, invite, petition, query, request, solicit |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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