petō — meaning in English

English meaning

• beseech verb To beg someone urgently and earnestly for something.
• fetch verb To go and get something, then bring it back.
• get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
• request verb To ask for something, often politely or formally.

Senses

petō is used for these senses in English:

• ask for To request.
• beseech To beg or request for (something).
• get (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• make for (idiomatic) To set out to go (somewhere); to move towards.
• request (transitive, or, with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).
• request (transitive) To ask (somebody) to do something.

fetch — full definition

1. verb To go and get something, then bring it back.
2. verb To sell for, or bring in, a certain price.
3. noun The act of retrieving something, or a program's act of pulling data.

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