Usually means: Plead earnestly or anxiously request.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word entreat:

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  1. entreat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. entreat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. entreat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. entreat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. entreat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Entreat, entreat: Wordnik
  7. entreat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. entreat: Wiktionary
  9. entreat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. entreat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. entreat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Entreat, entreat: Dictionary.com
  13. entreat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Entreat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Entreat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. entreat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. entreat: Rhymezone
  18. entreat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. entreat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. entreat: Free Dictionary
  21. entreat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. entreat: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. entreat: Encyclopedia

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  1. entreat: Idioms

(Note: See entreated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly.
verb:  To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
verb:  (obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
verb:  (obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To make an earnest petition or request.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
noun:  An entreaty.

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