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petitionnoun an earnest requesta flurry of petitions from eating and drinking establishments to be exempt from the new antismoking regulations adjuration, appeal, conjuration, cry, desire, entreaty, plea, pleading, prayer, solicitation, suit, suppliance, supplication application, requisitioncall, claim, demand, insistence petitionverbto make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent mannerpetitioned the judge to be excused from jury duty for financial hardship appeal (to), beg, beseech, besiege, conjure, entreat, impetrate, implore, importune, plead (to), pray, solicit, supplicate bludge(chiefly Australian & New Zealand), cadge, mooch, spongeask, desire, invoke, request, sueclaim, coerce, command, compel, demand, force, insist, require call on(or call upon) hint, imply, intimate, suggestappease, conciliate, gratify, mollify, oblige, pacify, placate, please, satisfycomfort, console, content, quiet in the 14th century |