Synonyms of petitioned

petitioned

verb

past tense of petition

as in begged

to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner

petitioned the judge to be excused from jury duty for financial hardship

Synonyms & Similar Words

• begged
• asked
• prayed
• beseeched
• implored
• entreated
• importuned
• conjured
• appealed (to)
• besieged
• requested
• supplicated
• pleaded (to)
• required
• solicited
• called on
• sued
• invoked
• impetrated
• compelled
• forced
• demanded
• insisted
• desired
• claimed
• coerced
• sponged
• bludged
• cadged
• mooched
• commanded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suggested
• intimated
• implied
• hinted
• obliged
• pleased
• satisfied
• gratified
• appeased
• pacified
• quieted
• consoled
• placated
• comforted
• mollified
• contented
• conciliated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of petitioned

Prosecutors have petitioned to have his probation revoked in the latter. — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026

The footage was released Friday after news outlets, including ABC News, petitioned the court. — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

Former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has petitioned a California court for legal guardianship over the 11-year-old daughter the couple had together. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026

Start of a movement Tensions came to a head in late 1824, when 47 male congregants petitioned leaders at their synagogue, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, to change the liturgy. — Ashley Walters, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

Few medications have been sued, petitioned against, and unnecessarily hauled before Congress as often as this one has. — Julie F. Kay, STAT, 25 Sep. 2026

Weinstein’s team has also petitioned the California Supreme Court for review of the conviction. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

New Jersey’s attorney general petitioned the Supreme Court, asking the justices to step in. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026

Last year, Works petitioned a county court in Tennessee to exhume the body of Randolph’s son from a Nashville cemetery, with the goal of extracting DNA that Works believes might clear Thomas Jefferson’s name. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026