Implore

Definition: Implore

Implore

Verb

1. Call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!".

Date "implore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Implore

Synonyms: beg (v), pray (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Forgiveness	Beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon; Noun: conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel; (pacify); let the wound heal.
Request	Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Implore

English words defined with "implore": Emplore ♦ I pray, Implored, Invocate ♦ Obsecrate ♦ To cry to. (references)

Specialty definitions using "implore": Colemira ♦ Rayne. (references)

Etymologies containing "implore": Imploration. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Implore" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (implores), Portuguese (beg), Spanish (implore).

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby)

I implore you. (Resident Evil; writing credit: Paul W.S. Anderson)

In the name of world science I beg youI implore you to think again. (The Valley of Gwangi; writing credit: William Bast; Julian More)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	I accept my part with single-mindedness of purpose and humility of spirit, and implore the favor and guidance of God in His Heaven.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Implore" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 56.00% of the time. "Implore" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	56%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (base form)	40%	10	111,207
Noun (singular)	4%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	25	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "implore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përgjërohem (entreat), lutem (appeal, be at one's devotions, beg, entreat, petition, plead, please, pray, short circuit, solicit, supplicate). (various references)

Arabic		‏ناشد (adjure, appeal, conjure, invoke), ‏توسل (beg, beseech, entreat, entreaty, invoke, petition, petition for smth., solicit, solicitation, sue, supplicate, supplication), ‏إلتمس (ask, beg, beseech, canvass, crave, cry, petition, plead, request, solicit, sue, woo). (various references)

Bulgarian		умолявам (adjure, beg, beseech, conjure, entreat, invoke, obtest, plead, pray, supplicate), моля (adjure, ask, beg, invoke, please, pray, request, solicit, supplicate). (various references)

Chinese		蘄 (place name, pray), 祈求 (Implored, imploring, invocation, invoke, Invoked, Invoking), 祈 (please, pray), 籲 , �"�求 (entreat), 吁 (hush, sh). (various references)

Czech		zapřísahat (adjure, conjure, entreat, forswear), prosit (ask, beg, beseech, obtest, petition, plead, pray, solicit). (various references)

Dutch		afsmeken (invoke). (various references)

Esperanto		elpetigi (invoke). (various references)

Farsi		عجزولابه کردن به , التماس کردن به (Conjure), استغاثه کردن از, درخواست کردن از. (various references)

Finnish		vannottaa (beseech, entreat, take a p.'s oath), anoa (ask, entreat, petition, request). (various references)

French		implorer. (various references)

German		anflehen (beg, beseech, entreat, Sue, supplicate, to supplicate). (various references)

Greek		ικετεύω (beg, beg for, beseech, entreat, petition, plead, pray, supplicate), θερμοπαρακαλώ (entreat). (various references)

Hebrew		לפצור (beg, entreat, plead, urge), ל�"תח� ן (appeal, ask for mercy, beg, beseech, entreat, pray, supplicate), ל�"פציר (beg, beseech, entreat, insist, plead, press, solicit, urge). (various references)

Hungarian		könyörög (beg, beseech, deprecate, entreat, pray, supplicate, to appeal, to beg, to conjure sy's help, to entreat, to implore, to supplicate), kér (adjure, ask, ask for it, beg, beseech, demand, petition, plead, pray, to apply to sy for sg, to ask for quarter, to conjure, to cry quarter, to demand, to desire, to entreat, to implore, to request, to require, to solicit, to supplicate), esedezik (supplicate, to beg hard, to entreat, to implore, to supplicate). (various references)

Indonesian		memohon (appeal, beseech, entreat, pray). (various references)

Italian		implorare (beg, beseech, crave, entreat, plead, pray), supplicare (adjure, beg, beseech, entreat, plead, supplicate), scongiurare (adjure, avert, avoid, beg, beseech). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		願う (to beg, to desire, to hope, to implore, to request, to wish), 拝み�'す (to beg, to entreat repeatedly, to implore, to persuade someone to consent), 伺う (to ask, to be told, to hear, to implore, to inquire, to visit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おがみたおす (to beg, to entreat repeatedly, to implore, to persuade someone to consent), ねがう (to beg, to desire, to hope, to implore, to request, to wish), うかがう (to ask, to be told, to hear, to implore, to inquire, to see the situation, to visit). (various references)

Korean		� 원하십시�". (various references)

Manx		jeean-geearree, jannoo aghin (appeal, beseech, entreat, file, petition, supplicate). (various references)

Norwegian		bønnfalle (entreat). (various references)

Pig Latin		imploreay.(various references)

Portuguese		implorar (beg, beseech, conjure, crave, deprecate, file a claim, invoke, petition, pray, supplicate), suplicar (beg, beseech, crave, entreaty, invoke, obtest, pray, supplicate), rogar (ask, ask for, beg, bid, entreat, file, obtest, petitionary, request, solicit), cegamente (blindfold, blindly). (various references)

Romanian		implora (adjure, beseech, conjure, crave, entreat, supplicate), ruga (ask, beg, court, desire, entreat, invite, petition, pray, request), cere (apply for, ask, ask for, beg, bid, cadge, call for, challenge, charge, claim, command, court, demand, desire, exact, expect, have, involve, necessitate, petition, request, require, require smth. of smb., Sue, urge). (various references)

Russian		умолять (beg, beseech, crave, entreat, implored, supplicate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		preklinjati (adjure, beg, beseech, conjure, entreat, pray, supplicate). (various references)

Spanish		implorar (beseech, crave, invoke, plead, solicit), suplicar (appeal, appeal for, appeal to, invoke, plead, pray, supplicate). (various references)

Swedish		bönfalla (adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, plead, pray, Sue). (various references)

Turkish		yalvarmak (adjure, appeal, beg, beseech, conjure, crave, desire, entreat, intercede, invoke, plead, pray, sit up and beg, solicit, supplicate), rica etmek (adjure, appeal, ask, beg, beseech, bespeak, conjure, desire, entreat, intercede, petition, plead, pray, request, Sue, sue for, supplicate). (various references)

Ukranian		благати (adjure, appeal, beg, beseech, conjure, crave, cry, deprecate, entreat, intercede, invoke, obsecrate, petition, plead, supplicate). (various references)

Welsh		ymhw+edd (beseech, crave), ymbil (beg, beseech, entreat, entreaty, supplication), erfyn (appeal, beg, beseech, expect, pray), crefu (beg, crave). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	implorare, inplorante, inploraverunt, invocare, obsecra, obsecramus, obsecrandum, obsecrans, obsecrantes, obsecrat, obsecratus, obsecraverint, obsecravit, obsecret, obsecro, obtestatus, precamini, precamur, precamurque, precandum, precans, precantem, precare, precarentur, precatus, precatusque, precor, precorque. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "implore": implored, implorer, implorers, implores. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Implore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emplor, emplore, implere, implier, imploee, impolre. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "implore" (pronounced i'mplô"r)
4	-p l ô" r	deplore, explore.
3	-l ô" r	floor, galore, lore.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: limper, moiler, mopier, prelim, rimple.
	-2 letters: impel, loper, miler, moire, moper, morel, oiler, oriel, peril, plier, poler, prime, primo, proem, prole, reoil.
	-3 letters: emir, lier, lime, limo, limp, lipe, lire, lope, lore, merl, mile, milo, mire, moil, mole, mope, more, omer, orle, peri, perm, pier, pile, plie, poem, pole, pome, pore, prim, prom, repo, riel, rile, rime, ripe, roil, role, romp, rope.
	-4 letters: elm, imp, ire, lei, lie, lip, lop, mel, mil, mir, mol, mop, mor, oil, ole, ope, ore, per, pie, poi, pol, pom, pro, rei, rem, rep, rim, rip, roe, rom.
	-5 letters: el, em, er, li, lo, me, mi, mo, oe, om, op, or, pe, pi, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: compiler, complier, impellor, implored, implorer, implores, proemial.
	+2 letters: compilers, compliers, impellors, implorers, micropyle, plexiform, polymeric, prolamine, recompile.
	+3 letters: biopolymer, complainer, impersonal, importable, improbable, improperly, improvable, limitrophe, metropolis, micropyles, multipower, oversimple, oversimply, palindrome, plyometric, polymerise, polymerism, polymerize, premolding, proclaimed, proclaimer, prolamines, recompiled, recompiles, slipformed, thermopile, trampoline.
	+4 letters: biopolymers, complainers, copolymeric, dimercaprol, imperiously, implementor, importunely, leprosarium, monopolizer, multiplexor, palindromes, patelliform, pelargonium, peristomial, peroxisomal, personalism, pleochroism, pleomorphic, plyometrics, polarimeter, polarimetry, polymerised, polymerises, polymerisms, polymerized, polymerizes, problematic, proclaimers, prominently, proselytism, proximately, recompiling, reemploying, semipopular, spermophile, temporality, temporalize, temporarily, thermophile, thermopiles, trampoliner, trampolines.
	+5 letters: accomplisher, compressible, computerlike, copolymerize, depolymerize, dimercaprols, epileptiform, heliotropism, imperatorial, impersonally, imperviously, implementors, imponderable, imponderably, incomparable, lampooneries, laparotomies, leprosariums, metaphorical, metropolises, metropolitan, microcapsule, microcephaly, monopolizers, morphologies, multiplexors, multiproblem, multipronged, multipurpose, myrmecophile, necrophilism, nonempirical, oversimplify, pelargoniums, peremptorily, personalisms, pleochroisms, pleomorphism, poikilotherm, polarimeters, polarimetric, polycentrism, polychromies, polymerising, polymerizing, polyribosome, postimperial, problematics, proselytisms, semitropical, spermophiles, temporalized, temporalizes, thermophiles, thermophilic, trampoliners.
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