IMPLORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does implore mean? 

• IMPLORE (verb)
  The verb IMPLORE has 1 sense:

1. call upon in supplication; entreat

  Familiarity information: IMPLORE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPLORE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they implore    ... he / she / it implores   
Past simple: implored   
Past participle: implored   
-ing form: imploring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call upon in supplication; entreat

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

beg; implore; pray

Context example:

I beg you to stop!

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

 Context examples 

I am content to implore in such a case, not on personal grounds, but for the sake of others.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had my arms round Mr. Wickfield, imploring him by everything that I could think of, oftenest of all by his love for Agnes, to calm himself a little.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram from the major, imploring me to come at once.

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

She implored me to come to bed.

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

I implore you to be careful, Watson.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He kneels, he prays, he implores!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He went on his knees to me, imploring me to spare him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

‘I implore you not to do this, Jack,’ she cried.

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

Amy started, and put both hands behind her, turning on him an imploring look which pleaded for her better than the words she could not utter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)