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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand, maintain property or right |
| Synonyms: | adduce, advance, allege, ask, assert, believe, call for, challenge, collect, declare, defend, exact, have dibs on something, hit, hit up, hold, hold out for, insist, justify, knock, lay claim to, need, pick up, pop the question, postulate, pretend, profess, pronounce, require, requisition, solicit, stake out, take, uphold, vindicate |
| Antonyms: | deny, disclaim, question |
| Main Entry: | request |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask for |
| Synonyms: | appeal, apply, beg, beseech, bespeak, call for, demand, desire, entreat, hit, hit up for, hold out for, hustle*, inquire, petition, pray, promote, put in for, requisition, seek, solicit, sponge, sue, supplicate, touch |
| Notes: | behest is a stronger term than request |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Concept: | Request. |
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-nouns
request, requisition; claim (demand); petition, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin., motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe; imprecation; rogation; proposal, proposition., orison (worship); incantation (spell)., mendicancy; asking, begging; postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation.
-verbs
request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim (demand); offer up prayers (worship); whistle for., beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones., beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging; mendicate, mump, cadge, beg one's bread., dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door., bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for (offer) [more]; publish the banns.
-adjectives
requesting; precatory; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory; postulant; obsecratory., importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones.
-adverbs
prithee, do, please, pray; be so good as, be good enough; have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.
-phrases
Dieu vous garde; dirigenos Domine.
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