verb
- asks someone earnestly or urgently to do something; pleads with
Usage: archaic or literary form of ‘entreats’
Examples
- The prisoner intreats the judge for mercy.
- She intreats her father to reconsider his decision.
- He intreats them to listen to his proposal.
- The messenger intreats the king to spare the village.
- They intreat you to join their cause.
- The mother intreats her son to return home safely.