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petitionsnounpl. of petition an earnest requesta flurry of petitions from eating and drinking establishments to be exempt from the new antismoking regulations adjurations, appeals, conjurations, cries, desires, entreaties, pleadings, pleas, prayers, solicitations, suits, suppliances, supplications applications, requisitionscalls, claims, demands, insistences to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent mannerpetitioned the judge to be excused from jury duty for financial hardship appeals (to), begs, beseeches, besieges, conjures, entreats, impetrates, implores, importunes, pleads (to), prays, solicits, supplicates bludges(chiefly Australian & New Zealand), cadges, mooches, spongesasks, desires, invokes, requests, suesclaims, coerces, commands, compels, demands, forces, insists, requires calls on(or calls upon) hints, implies, intimates, suggestsappeases, conciliates, gratifies, mollifies, obliges, pacifies, placates, pleases, satisfiescomforts, consoles, contents, quiets |