supplicate
verb (used without object)
to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
supplicating
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present participleof supplicate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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From noon to midnight, it is alive with the buzz of crowded restaurants, supplicating panhandlers, weaving motorcycles, and pushy vendors.
From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2022
As I do them, moving my legs one way, my arms the other, bending and supplicating my spine, I can hear my sacral joints clicking, realigning, settling themselves, speaking to me.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018
Simultaneous with the lawsuit against the NYSAC, supporters and promoters continued searching the country, supplicating cities and their officials to allow Ali to fight.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2016
Fallon pretended to be a supplicating fan of Tom Hanks, who dropped a twenty on him without batting an eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2015
He punched his hat back, concentrated, stiffened his hands, palms upward, in a supplicating gesture and began softly to chant Tantum ergo sacramentum, Veneremur cernui in as beautiful Latin as I have ever heard.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
