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US
/ˌɪmˈpɫɔɹ/
]
[ UK /ɪmplˈɔː/ ]
[ UK /ɪmplˈɔː/ ]
VERB
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call upon in supplication; entreat
I beg you to stop!
How To Use implore In A Sentence
- He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- 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
- Yet wait, wait, wait," implored another whisperer from the Earth. Parables From Nature
- I implore the May Day protesters to worry about real problems, rather than just labelling everything as an evil of capitalism.
- She implored her parents not to send her away to school.
- Rhee and Fenty describe how they "implored" private foundations to put up money to fund that bargain. DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 1, 2010
- Opposition leaders this week implored the president to break the deadlock.
- We implore you to acknowledge that the Department of Justice cannot reasonably be a party to such tyranny.
- He implored his army of volunteers to get voters to the caucuses tomorrow by any means possible. Times, Sunday Times
- She clasped her hands, and glancing upward, seemed to implore divine assistance.