Implore

English

Verb

Implore (third-person singular simple present emplores, present participle emploring, simple past and past participle emplored)

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

Synonyms

• encourage
• exhort

Adverbs for Implore

piteously; heartrendingly; beseechingly; plaintively; fruitlessly; ceaselessly; noisily; blatantly; repetitiously.

Thesaurus

adjure, appeal, appeal to, beg, beseech, call for help, call on, call upon, clamor for, commune with God, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, entreat, give thanks, impetrate, importune, imprecate, invoke, kneel to, make supplication, obtest, offer a prayer, petition, plead, plead for, pray, pray over, recite the rosary, return thanks, run to, say grace, supplicate

Etymology

French implorer, Latin implōrō (“beseech, implore”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪmˈplɔː(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /Im"plO:(r\)/
• (US) IPA: /ɪmˈploʊɹ/, SAMPA: /Im"ploUr\/

  Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

Translations

to beg for

Arabic: رَجا (ar) (rajaa) Armenian: աղաչել (hy) (aġačel) Bulgarian: умолявам Chinese: 籲 (yù) Danish: bønfalde (da), trygle (da) Greek: εκλιπαρώ (el) (ekliparo) Hungarian: könyörög (hu)

Icelandic: grátbiðja Latin: adōrō (la) Russian: умолять, упрашивать Spanish: implorar (es) Turkish: yalvarmak (tr) Ukrainian: благати (uk) (blagaty)

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French

Verb

Implore

1. first-person singular present indicative of implorer
2. third-person singular present indicative of implorer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of implorer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of implorer
5. second-person singular imperative of implorer

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Spanish

Verb

Implore (infinitive implorar)

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of implorar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of implorar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of implorar.