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- verb Present participle of
intreat .
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Examples
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What I find the most intreating is the fact that most of the actors that are in our time are a bunch of hippies in my opinion.
David Spade Makes Gift Of 50 AR-15s Dave Hurteau 2008
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New study strengthens evidence for probiotics intreating diarrhea.
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New study strengthens evidence for probiotics intreating diarrhea.
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Eli Wiesel, for instance, recounts how a Jew escaped the genocide in the early 40s and returned to his village in Rumania, desperately intreating his fellow villagers to flee – and nobody believed him.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Advertisements were sent to all the papers, intreating her return to the husband she had deserted, but no tidings could be obtained.
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I never heard lobsters called to as bugs..intreating
Bugs 'n clams 2008
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She then wrote an affectionate adieu to Mrs. Berlinton, intreating to hear from her at Etherington; and, while she was sealing it, Mrs. Arlbery came to embrace her, as the carriage was at the door.
Camilla 2008
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In these Thoughts I was toss'd all that Night; when the Morning appear'd, I saw a Ship sailing that Way, to which I call d and becken'd, intreating them to take me in, which they did with much readiness, and put me into a Cabin to repose my self.
Exilius 2008
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Perplexed and uneasy, Lady Seyntaubyne wrote by return of post to her reverend friend what was best to be done, intreating he would suggest some eligible plan to be immediately adopted.
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When Hippocrates was now come to Abdera, the people of the city came flocking about him, some weeping, some intreating of him, that he would do his best.
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