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What is the verb for praying?

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pray
  1. To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.
  2. To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
  3. (religion) To communicate with God for any reason.
  4. (obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Let us pray to God that this may be a blessed season to us.”
      “The people on earth who pray for world peace, whether men or women, old or young, are like angels who are uplifting the earthly world.”
      “It must lay the master under an obligation to pray to God for strength and wisdom to fulfill his duty according to the true nature and tendency of the practice.”
praying
praye
  1. Obsolete spelling of pray
prays
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pray
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The entire port town in the south of India prays and waits to rejoice in the company of this talented, little cricket family.”
      “Scooby is a four-year-old jack donkey who brays if not prays when the Angelus Bells toll at high noon and six o'clock.”
      “A Baptist church deacon, he prays each day his stage four lung cancer won't take him.”
prayeth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pray
  2. Examples:
    1. “He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.”
prayest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of pray
prayedst
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of pray
prayed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pray
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Some people stood with their arms raised, as if in blessing, and they swayed slightly as they prayed.”
      “Coming out of the theatre in the cold and the rain, I felt a warm glow inside me and fervently prayed for a kinder new year.”
      “After I left him on the tiles with my mescal, I ran and prayed for luck with keys.”
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