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solicit

English

  1. 🔊 make a solicitation or petition for something desired
    “She is too shy to solicit”
  2. 🔊 incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination
    “He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents”
  3. 🔊 make a solicitation or entreaty for something
    “Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce”
  4. 🔊 approach with an offer of sexual favors
    “he was solicited by a prostitute”
  5. 🔊 make amorous advances towards
    “John is courting Mary”

Similar words

hook accost beg tap woo court romance accost address angle for appeal to apply approach ask ask for beg beseech bespeak bid for call call on call upon canvass challenge