Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: implore
IPA transcription: [,ɪmpl'ɔɹ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: beg, implore, pray
    Meaning: call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
Usage examples
  • "Dick, I implore you, heed what I say.
  • Go, I implore you, before Van Brandt comes back.
  • I implore you, for the love you bear your children, the little Tunnies, to help us, or we are lost!"
  • By the mother who bore you--for the love of Heaven--by your hope of salvation, I implore you to put back for the box!"
  • Go sit out on the lake, if you like that sort of thing; soak the water-butt, if you wish; but do not, I implore you, come into a gentleman's house and saturate him and his possessions in this way.
  • "I shall move him to compassion," said I to myself, "by the relation of my uncommon misfortunes, and without doubt he will take pity on a persecuted prince, and not suffer me to implore his assistance in vain."
  • "On my knees I intreat, I implore your confidence, a confidence which it shall be the business of my life to deserve." "Let it then," said she, "be the business of some part of your life to shew me you deserve it.