implore

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im·plore /ɪmˈplɔː $ -ɔːr/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT] formal

ASK FOR something/ASK somebody TO DO somethingto ask for something in an emotional way 恳求；乞求；哀求 SYN beg

‘Don’t go, ’ I implored her.

“不要走。”我哀求她。

implore somebody to do something

She implored the soldiers to save her child.

她恳求那些士兵救救她的孩子。

—imploring adjectiveadj

a ragged child with imploring eyes

眼神中充满乞求的衣衫褴褛的孩子

Examples from the Corpus

implore• Calls full of anguish, of him confessing his love for her, while imploring for time to explore his spiritual struggle.• She was not alone, not lost, she had him, he told her, and implored her to persevere.• His blue eyes implored her to take off the gag.• She implored me to leave him, but I was afraid.• The look in his eyes is so haunted and imploring that Blue can scarcely turn his own eyes away.• You implore them to believe that it is an object with certain transformation properties under rotations.• General Lee, on horseback, dashed among the fugitives and implored them to rally.• After imploring top officials for years to improve conditions for orphans, she was fired in June 1993.

implore somebody to do something• The human rights organization implored both groups to end the violence.

Origin implore

(1500-1600) French implorer, from Latin, from plorare “to cry out”

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