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词汇 entreating
释义 entreating
adjective
uk /ɪnˈtriː.tɪŋ/ us /ɪnˈtriː.t̬ɪŋ/
acting or done in an emotional way that shows that you very much want to persuade someone to do something:
She looked at him with entreating eyes as she sang.
He spoke in an entreating voice, and it was hard to refuse.
Synonyms
beseeching
pleading
Related word
entreat
He opened the door with an entreating look at her.
There was a knock, and I heard an entreating voice outside the door.
She heard her mother, sounding angry, and her brother, sounding entreating.
I looked into the dog's entreating eyes and couldn't ignore him.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making appeals & requests
adjuration
appellate
apply for something
apply to
ask a lot
besiege
car wash
cry
demand
entreat
importunately
importunity
invite
invocation
leech
out with it!idiom
pester
push
scrounge
ticket

Examples of entreating


entreating
Students, professors, workmen, citizensrepresentative menwere entreating the ministers and the professional politicians.
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There are fourteen main sections defined by moods, such as cautious, entreating, agitated, and angry, until finally, the door opens.
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Wikipedia

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