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supplicating

/suhp-li-keyt/US // ˈsʌp lɪˌkeɪt //UK // (ˈsʌplɪˌkeɪt) //

哀求,哀求的,祈求,恳求

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sup·pli·cat·ed, sup·pli·cat·ing.

    • : to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sup·pli·cat·ed, sup·pli·cat·ing.

    • : to pray humbly to; entreat or petition humbly.
    • : to seek or ask for by humble entreaty.

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Examples

  • It is better for him to supplicate God to change his heart, than to insult him by promising to do what he is unwilling to perform.

  • Andrea might writhe and supplicate and despair as he would—in vain.

  • When a mortal, she had no children by her husband, which caused her to supplicate the gods to give her offspring.

  • Did not those eyes he had blessed with vision, with tears supplicate compassion for their benefactor?

  • All those who supplicate in this very average court practise it to a more or less degree.