Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to implore
Participle: implored
Gerund: imploring
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | implore |
| you | implore |
| he;she;it | implores |
| we | implore |
| you | implore |
| they | implore |
Perfect
| I | have implored |
| you | have implored |
| he;she;it | has implored |
| we | have implored |
| you | have implored |
| they | have implored |
Past
| I | implored |
| you | implored |
| he;she;it | implored |
| we | implored |
| you | implored |
| they | implored |
Pluperfect
| I | had implored |
| you | had implored |
| he;she;it | had implored |
| we | had implored |
| you | had implored |
| they | had implored |
Future
| I | will implore |
| you | will implore |
| he;she;it | will implore |
| we | will implore |
| you | will implore |
| they | will implore |
Future Perfect
| I | will have implored |
| you | will have implored |
| he;she;it | will have implored |
| we | will have implored |
| you | will have implored |
| they | will have implored |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | implore |
| you | implore |
| he;she;it | implore |
| we | implore |
| you | implore |
| they | implore |
Perfect
| I | have implored |
| you | have implored |
| he;she;it | have implored |
| we | have implored |
| you | have implored |
| they | have implored |
Imperfect
| I | implored |
| you | implored |
| he;she;it | implored |
| we | implored |
| you | implored |
| they | implored |
Pluperfect
| I | had implored |
| you | had implored |
| he;she;it | had implored |
| we | had implored |
| you | had implored |
| they | had implored |
Conditional
Present
| I | would implore |
| you | would implore |
| he;she;it | would implore |
| we | would implore |
| you | would implore |
| they | would implore |
Perfect
| I | would have implored |
| you | would have implored |
| he;she;it | would have implored |
| we | would have implored |
| you | would have implored |
| they | would have implored |
Imperative
| you | implore |
| we | Let's implore |
| you | implore |
Verbs conjugated like 'implore'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'implore'
emplore,
implode,
deplore,
explore,
implate,
imploy,
impone,
impoor,
import,
impose,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- beg
- appeal, beseech, plead, pray, entreat, supplicate, importune, solicit
Antonyms
- beg
- give, bestow, reward, concede
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1500, from L.
implorare "call for help, beseech," originally "invoke with weeping," from
in- "upon" +
plorare "to weep, cry out."
2. PIE word
3. *h₁én
4. The verb is borrowed from Middle French implorer (modern French implorer (“to beg, plead, implore”)), or directly from its etymon Latin implōrāre, the present active infinitive of implōrō (“to beseech, entreat, implore; to appeal to, pray to”), from im- (a variant of in- (intensifying prefix)) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain, deplore, lament”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)).
5. The noun is derived from the verb. See: French '
implorer'.
Verbs referencing "implore"
Spanish
llorar.
Sample Sentences
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[...] the word,—or at the most, the image of a little newspaper picture of a man with a stick and bundle with “ Ran away from the subscriber ” under it. The magic of the real presence of distress,—the imploring human eye, the frail, trembling human hand, the despairing appeal of helpless agony,—these he had never tried. He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] of medicine are requested, by notices upon the wall, to eject their tobacco juice into the boxes provided for that purpose, and not to discolour the stairs. In public buildings, visitors are implored, through the same agency, to squirt the essence of their quids, or ‘plugs, ’ as I have heard them called by gentlemen learned in this kind of sweetmeat, into the national spittoons, and not about [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and saw the ball of tobacco in his left cheek, quiver with his suppressed agony, while yet he spat, and chewed, and spat again, in emulation of his older friend, I could have fallen on his neck and implored him to go on for hours.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] Miss Eva, who appeared to be fascinated by her wild diablerie, as a dove is sometimes charmed by a glittering serpent. Miss Ophelia was uneasy that Eva should fancy Topsy's society so much, and implored St. Clare to forbid it.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Miss Ophelia tried the recipe, and Topsy invariably made a terrible commotion, screaming, groaning and imploring, though half an hour afterwards, when roosted on some projection of the balcony, and surrounded by a flock of admiring “ young uns, ” she would express the utmost contempt of the whole affair.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] him, at a little distance. Tom walked up, and stood by the sofa. He hesitated; and, while he was hesitating, St. Clare suddenly raised himself up. The honest face, so full of grief, and with such an imploring expression of affection and sympathy, struck his master. He laid his hand on Tom 's, and bowed down his forehead on it.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and patience had awakened to repentance, and bitter prayers, breathed over him to a late-found Saviour, of whom they scarce knew more than the name, but whom the yearning ignorant heart of man never implores in vain.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] chains ? No, not as an individual; but, let me go and form part of a nation, which shall have a voice in the councils of nations, and then we can speak. A nation has a right to argue, remonstrate, implore, and present the cause of its race,—which an individual has not.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)