SUPPLICATE

[verb] [formal or literary] - to ask (esp. a god or a person who is in a position of power) for (something) in an anxious way that shows that you do not think that you are very importantIt is humiliating to be forced to supplicate assistance from your former enemy/supplicate your former enemy for assistance. [T]The members of the congregation bowed their heads, silently supplicating. [I]