solicit

Verb

• make a solicitation or petition for something desired
  • She is too shy to solicit
    

• incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination
  • He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents
    

• approach with an offer of sexual favors
  • he was solicited by a prostitute
    
  • The young man was caught soliciting in the park
    

• make amorous advances towards
  • John is courting Mary
    

• make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
  • Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce
    
  • My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hook , accost , woo , court , romance , beg , tap