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IMPLORE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call upon in supplication; entreat

Example:

I beg you to stop!

Synonyms:

beg; implore; pray

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "implore" is one way to...):

plead (appeal or request earnestly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "implore"):

crave (plead or ask for earnestly)

supplicate (ask humbly (for something))

importune; insist (beg persistently and urgently)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

They implore him to write the letter

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 Context examples: 

There, prostrate upon their faces, lay the little red figures of the four surviving Indians, trembling with fear of us and yet imploring our protection.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The impulse of gratitude swelled my heart, and I knelt down at the bedside, and offered up thanks where thanks were due; not forgetting, ere I rose, to implore aid on my further path, and the power of meriting the kindness which seemed so frankly offered me before it was earned.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He turned to Mrs. Weston to implore her assistance, Would not she give him her support? —would not she add her persuasions to his, to induce Miss Woodhouse not to go to Mrs. Goddard's till it were certain that Miss Smith's disorder had no infection?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She was preparing for her ninth lying-in; and after bewailing the circumstance, and imploring their countenance as sponsors to the expected child, she could not conceal how important she felt they might be to the future maintenance of the eight already in being.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was that night after you left me, when I implored you to let me go away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr. Holmes, if ever you put forward your full powers, I implore you to do so now, for never in your life could you have a case which is more worthy of them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If he shows his face near it, mine assumes an imploring and submissive expression.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Now do be reasonable, and take a sensible view of the case," implored Jo, almost at her wit's end.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was begging, pleading, imploring for his comrade's life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He pushed his way in, seized me in his mighty arms, hugged me in his bear’s embrace, covered me with kisses, and implored me to come away with him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)