(v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
(v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
(v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
(v. t.) To invite; to entertain.
(v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
(v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.
(n.) Entreaty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(2) He spends most of the book entreating actors and directors, whom he compares to generals, to master their craft.
(3) Children in the 1980s were entreated to do the same by the BBC TV series Why Don't You, which somewhat confusingly called on its viewers to "switch off your TV set, and go do something less boring instead".
(4) I have tried to distract, grab and run but my little one slays me with his doleful eyes, entreating: "What if I get an ouchy in the playground?"
(5) But as the final entry in Hansberry's journal entreated: "If anything should happen - before 'tis done - may I trust that all commas and periods will be placed and someone will complete my thoughts.
(6) Front and center will be whether the president has obstructed justice – first, by entreating Comey to “let go” of the Flynn investigation, and second, by firing Comey.
(7) Rather than reach out he retreats, and roils at the fickleness of everything – entreating media boosters to validate him, telling the colleagues they have no right to desert him, while pondering who he can jettison in order to save himself.
(8) 9.33pm BST 89 min: Diego Simeone entreats his own support to make noise by throwing some frantic semaphore shapes.
(9) Another campaign poster, referring to the clan name of the late leader, entreats: "Do it for Madiba, vote ANC!"
(10) And he knew that when people went to WikiLeaks, they weren’t going to find damaging information about [his allies] Steve Bannon or Reince Priebus or the RNC [Republican National Committee].” Donald Trump to Russia: hack and publish Hillary Clinton's 'missing' emails Read more At his last press conference, in July, Trump effectively asked a foreign power to carry out cyber-espionage, entreating Russia to find Clinton’s 30,000 “missing” emails , from the private server she used while secretary of state.
Urgency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(2) By no means is this a new theme, but it has taken on an added sharpness and urgency after the conferences.
(3) In acute indications for discontinuing the treatment with antithrombotics depending on the clinical urgency a gradually different discontinuation by stages should be striven for, in order to avoid thromboembolic relapses.
(4) Throughout the decade that it took GM to recall the Cobalt, there was a lack of accountability, a lack of urgency, and a failure of company personnel charged with ensuring the safety of the company's vehicles to understand how GM's own cars were designed.
(5) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(6) It was becoming entertaining too, a match that was swift and direct, the ball moved rapidly and with a sense of urgency.
(7) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
(8) European foreign ministers and EU leaders have lined up this weekend to impress on Britain the need for urgency .
(9) Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a sterile, inflammatory bladder condition characterized by urinary frequency and urgency, as well as burning and suprapubic pain, which occurs more frequently in women who may suffer for years before diagnosis.
(10) Patients who complain of increased frequency, urgency and incontinence but pass normal stool volumes often have an abnormality in the motor activity of the anorectum.
(11) My fundamental beliefs didn’t change so much as they projected themselves with greater volume and urgency .
(12) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
(13) After low colo-rectal or colo-anal anastomosis there is in 25% a degree of urgency and increased bowel movements.
(14) The sweeping proposals are a sizeable step up in scale and urgency for a mayor who has for years emphasised the threat climate change poses to the city, which has 520 miles of coastline.
(15) Pearson product moment correlation was used to determine agreement between parent and physician urgency ratings.
(16) Vascular urgencies in childhood are rare and various in presentation.
(17) Using a three-level approach based upon the patient's requirements for basic, advanced, or specialized medical care and the urgency of transport, the subcommittee was able to derive medical categories necessary for the selection and utilization of air ambulance services.
(18) It needs to be directed with pressing urgency: ice sheets are melting, sea levels rising and farmland is turning to desert across the globe as temperatures rise.
(19) Famine is stalking Somalia after a year of poor rains and heavy fighting, with more than a million lives at risk and little sense of urgency from the international community, the top UN envoy to the country warned.
(20) Among 1128 students and hospital employees that we surveyed, urgency was reported in 14.4%, fecal soiling in 5.3%, and diarrhea in 9.0%.