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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To appeal to in supplication; beseech: implored the tribunal to have mercy.
  2. v. To beg for urgently; entreat.
  3. v. To make an earnest appeal. See Synonyms at beg.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To call upon in supplication; beseech or entreat; pray or petition earnestly.
  2. To pray or beg for earnestly; seek to obtain by supplication or entreaty: as, to implore aid or pardon.
  3. Synonyms Request, Beg, etc. See ask and solicit.
  4. To supplicate; entreat.
  5. n. Earnest supplication.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To beg for, to entreat urgently or earnestly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to pray to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urgency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought.
  2. v. To entreat; to beg; to prey.
  3. n. obsolete Imploration.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. call upon in supplication; entreat.

Etymologies

  1. French implorer, Latin implōrō ("beseech, implore"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin implōrāre : in-, toward; see in-2 + plōrāre, to weep. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “It requested the President “to appoint a day for humiliation and prayer” and to ask the people “to convene at their usual places of worship” in order that they may “confess and repent of their manifold sins, implore the compassion and forgiveness of the Almighty, that, if consistent with his will the existing rebellion may be speedily suppressed” and “implore him as the supreme ruler of the world not to destroy us as a people.”

    Chapter X

  • “I would again implore ... not to let this opportunity pass.”

    Ontario and the Constitutional Proposals

  • “I send you ten shillings for pocket-money, and again implore you to let Mrs. Bax have a little rest and peace.”

    New Treasure Seekers

  • “The letter I send this year will again implore you.”

    Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese

  • “Besides, if we can obtain from them even this admission, that those who are not yet baptized implore the aid of the saviour's grace, this will indeed be no small matter against that false defense of nature, as being sufficient for itself, and of the power of free will.”

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2

  • “Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night.”

    Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War

  • “When by the next morning he had slept off his debauch, and came round to recollection of his enormities, his penitence knew no bounds; he would prostrate himself in the Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night.”

    Under the Dragon Flag

  • “While Astro Coast may include sunny tunes like "Take It Easy" and "Floating Vibes" (songs that sound exactly like their titles implore), you'll also find harrowing, existential episodes like "Harmonix," where lead singer John Paul Pitts, swathed in thick reverb and echo, sings, "I won't wait around for the grass to grow back now.”

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  • “She implored me -- she used the word 'implore' -- to fly from her, to leave her to her fate, to endeavour to find happiness with some one else. ”

    Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1

  • “I implore you, in fact '(yes, that word,' implore 'was uttered!),' to tell me the whole truth, without mincing matters.”

    The Possessed

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synonyms (14)

Words with the same meaning

  1. beg
  2. solicit
  1. request
  2. petition
  1. beseech
  2. adjure
  1. prey
  2. entreat
  1. supplicate
  2. crave
  1. imploration
  2. ask
  1. encourage
  2. exhort

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. plead

hyponyms (4)

Words that are more specific

  1. importune
  1. insist
  1. supplicate
  1. crave

rhymes (103)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Boer
  2. Bohr
  3. C4
  4. Dior
  5. Dore
  6. Flore
  7. Fore
  8. Gabor
  9. Gore
  10. Igor
  11. Lahore
  12. Laure
  13. Lenore
  14. Livermore
  15. Moore
  16. More
  17. Orr
  18. Shor
  19. Shore
  20. Thor
  1. Timor
  2. Tor
  3. Torr
  4. abhor
  5. abor
  6. adore
  7. antiwar
  8. anymore
  9. ashore
  10. before
  11. boar
  12. bore
  13. chore
  14. cor
  15. core
  16. corps
  17. corr
  18. decor
  19. deplore
  20. door
  1. dorr
  2. drawer
  3. explore
  4. floor
  5. flor
  6. for
  7. fore
  8. four
  9. galore
  10. glore
  11. goar
  12. gore
  13. guarantor
  14. hardcore
  15. heretofore
  16. hoar
  17. ignore
  18. inshore
  19. knorr
  20. livor
  1. lore
  2. mohr
  3. mor
  4. more
  5. noncore
  6. nor
  7. oar
  8. offshore
  9. or
  10. ore
  11. outpour
  12. outscore
  13. por
  14. pore
  15. postwar
  16. pour
  17. prewar
  18. rapport
  19. restore
  20. roar
  1. saur
  2. schnorr
  3. score
  4. shor
  5. shore
  6. snore
  7. soar
  8. sore
  9. spore
  10. store
  11. swore
  12. thor
  13. tor
  14. tore
  15. torr
  16. underscore
  17. vore
  18. war
  19. whore
  20. wor
  1. wore
  2. yore
  3. your

reverse dictionary (14)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. crave
  2. supplicate
  1. emplore
  2. implore
  1. invocate
  2. invoke
  1. conjure
  2. beseech
  1. cry
  2. to cry to
  1. obsecrate
  2. pray
  1. mump
  2. thig

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