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"sense": "to beg",
"word": "dēprecor"
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"sense": "to beg",
"word": "യാചിക്കുക"
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"word": "bønnfalle"
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"ref": "[1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter iii, leaf 401r",
"text": "Moost noble crysten Quene I byseche yow as ye haue ben euer my specyal good lady and I at al tymes your true poure knyghte vnto my power and as I neuer fayled yow in ryghte nor in wrong sythen the fyrst day kynge Arthur made me knyghte that ye wylle praye for my soule yf that I here be slayne;\n\"Most noble Christian queen, I beseech you as ye have been ever my special good lady, and I at all times your true poor knight unto my power, and as I never failed you in right nor in wrong sithen the first day King Arthur made me knight, that ye will pray for my soul if that I here be slain;\"]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Royal Pond",
"text": "[King Knight defeats the Troupple King.] / Troupple Acolyte: 'HALT! I BESEECH THEE! PLEASE, NO MORE!'",
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}
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{
"ref": "1990, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., The Brothers Karamazov, San Francisco, North Point Press, page 657",
"text": "[T]he tickets had all been given out, begged, besought long ago.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To beg or request for (something)."
],
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"request",
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],
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}
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{
"ipa": "/bɪˈsiːt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːtʃ"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "bĭ-sēchʹ"
}
],
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"word": "beseek"
}
],
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tawassala",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "تَوَسَّلَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "iltamasa",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "اِلْتَمَسَ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "aġersel",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "աղերսել"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "umoljavam",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "умолявам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prosja",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "прося"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "pregar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "āiqiú",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "哀求"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "懇求"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kěnqiú",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "恳求"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to beg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "doprošovat se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to beg",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zapřísahat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to beg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "prosit"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bønfalde"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bezweren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bidden"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "smeken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "rukoilla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "anoa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "prier"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "implorer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "supplier"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "rogar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "anflehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "ersuchen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bitten"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "iketévo",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "ικετεύω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hiketéō",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "ἱκετέω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "parakaléō",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "παρακαλέω"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "achair"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "supplicare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "implorare"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "petō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "dēprecor"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "yācikkuka",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "യാചിക്കുക"
},
{
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "eitloa"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bønnfalle"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "trygle"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "be"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "prachren"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to beg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "błagać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "rogar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "implorar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "implora"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "umoljátʹ",
"sense": "to beg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "умоля́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "preklinjati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "rogar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "implorar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "suplicar"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "kuomba"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "kusihi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bönfalla"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to beg",
"word": "bekön"
}
],
"word": "beseech"
}
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"name": "inh"
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"t": "to seek or inquire about"
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"name": "der"
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "bezoeken",
"t": "to visit, attend, see"
},
"expansion": "Dutch bezoeken (“to visit, attend, see”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "besuchen",
"t": "to visit, attend, see"
},
"expansion": "German besuchen (“to visit, attend, see”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "besöka",
"t": "to visit, go to see"
},
"expansion": "Swedish besöka (“to visit, go to see”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"tags": [
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1617, pseudo-Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or the Bloody Brother, act IV, scene III",
"text": "Good madam, hear the suit that Edith urges, With such submiss beseeches; [...]",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"A request."
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"(archaic) A request."
],
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"archaic"
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"ipa": "/bɪˈsiːt͡ʃ/"
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{
"rhymes": "-iːtʃ"
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
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{
"word": "beseek"
}
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