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单词 implore
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Definition of implore in English:

implore

verb ɪmˈplɔːɪmˈplɔr
  • 1reporting verb Beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.

    with object and infinitive he implored her to change her mind
    with direct speech ‘Please don't talk that way,’ Ellen implored
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is me imploring the congregation of nurses at the first learning session to please, please, please put more people on treatment.
    • What if they just forget the due process, consultants and planning stuff and like Mayo just ‘implored’ you to do it?
    • There and then, he cast himself on the mercy of God, imploring him to forgive his sins and accept his soul for Christ's sake.
    • On research, Gates implored politicians to dedicate more funding to federal research programs and to make the research and development tax credit permanent, an idea supported by President Bush.
    • Thus this work can be read as autobiographical, sometimes more specifically as representing a triangle in which the man is Rodin, the imploring young woman, Camille, and the old woman, Rose Beuret, or more generally as a symbolic representation of the painful break between Claudel and Rodin.
    • The Prime Minister has implored the state and territory leaders to take up the Commonwealth's plan for the Murray-Darling Basin for the good of the nation.
    • And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms around their knees, imploring them to stay.
    • Most Arabic music is pure melody and rhythm, unencumbered by harmony; voices implore and exult, while instruments share the inflections of song.
    • Conservative MPs implored key figures in the sponsorship scandal to ‘just let it out’ Wednesday and admit they lied to Parliament three years ago about their roles in the affair.
    Synonyms
    plead with, beg, entreat, beseech, appeal to, pray, ask, request, solicit, supplicate, importune, call on
    exhort, urge, enjoin, press, push, petition, encourage, bid
    rare obtest, obsecrate, impetrate
    1. 1.1archaic with object Beg earnestly for.
      I implore mercy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In her association with the apostles and several women, ‘we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation.’
      • Hundreds of young survivors of the blaze, sweaty and black with soot, raised their arms to the sky as if imploring mercy or hugged each other - sharing pain, fear, anguish and a feeling of helplessness.
      • It is to make atonement to the Most Scared Heart for all the sins of the world and to implore His grace and mercy for every family in the Ferrybank Parish.
      • The people prayed, wept, gnashed their teeth, pulled their hair, imploring the mercy of the Virgin Mary.
      • We implore God's mercy for ourselves, the church, and the world, because in God's world there is peace for all.

Derivatives

  • imploringly

  • adverbɪmˈplɔːrɪŋliɪmˈplɔrɪŋli
    • Rickety children clutching imploringly the tattered garments barely covering the bones of their mothers are seen in all quarters of the city.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He bad been looking imploringly at the hard-faced slatternly woman who stood in the path, but at this moment he had caught sight of Jessie.
      • He came around the car as she tried to cover herself with her sweater and then, as she looked imploringly into his eyes, he burst out laughing.

Origin

Early 16th century: from French implorer or Latin implorare 'invoke with tears'.

  • The word implore comes from Latin implorare ‘invoke with tears’.

Rhymes

abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your
 
 

Definition of implore in US English:

implore

verbɪmˈplɔrimˈplôr
  • 1reporting verb Beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.

    with object and infinitive he implored her to change her mind
    with direct speech “Please don't talk that way,” Ellen implored
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Conservative MPs implored key figures in the sponsorship scandal to ‘just let it out’ Wednesday and admit they lied to Parliament three years ago about their roles in the affair.
    • What if they just forget the due process, consultants and planning stuff and like Mayo just ‘implored’ you to do it?
    • There and then, he cast himself on the mercy of God, imploring him to forgive his sins and accept his soul for Christ's sake.
    • Most Arabic music is pure melody and rhythm, unencumbered by harmony; voices implore and exult, while instruments share the inflections of song.
    • The Prime Minister has implored the state and territory leaders to take up the Commonwealth's plan for the Murray-Darling Basin for the good of the nation.
    • And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms around their knees, imploring them to stay.
    • Thus this work can be read as autobiographical, sometimes more specifically as representing a triangle in which the man is Rodin, the imploring young woman, Camille, and the old woman, Rose Beuret, or more generally as a symbolic representation of the painful break between Claudel and Rodin.
    • On research, Gates implored politicians to dedicate more funding to federal research programs and to make the research and development tax credit permanent, an idea supported by President Bush.
    • This is me imploring the congregation of nurses at the first learning session to please, please, please put more people on treatment.
    Synonyms
    plead with, beg, entreat, beseech, appeal to, pray, ask, request, solicit, supplicate, importune, call on
    1. 1.1archaic with object Beg earnestly for.
      I implore mercy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Hundreds of young survivors of the blaze, sweaty and black with soot, raised their arms to the sky as if imploring mercy or hugged each other - sharing pain, fear, anguish and a feeling of helplessness.
      • We implore God's mercy for ourselves, the church, and the world, because in God's world there is peace for all.
      • It is to make atonement to the Most Scared Heart for all the sins of the world and to implore His grace and mercy for every family in the Ferrybank Parish.
      • The people prayed, wept, gnashed their teeth, pulled their hair, imploring the mercy of the Virgin Mary.
      • In her association with the apostles and several women, ‘we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation.’

Origin

Early 16th century: from French implorer or Latin implorare ‘invoke with tears’.

 
 
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