Importune

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To beset with insistent or repeated requests; entreat pressingly.
  • v. Archaic To ask for urgently or repeatedly.
  • v. To annoy; vex.
  • verb-intransitive. To plead or urge irksomely, often persistently. See Synonyms at beg.
  • adj. Importunate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To bother, trouble, irritate.
  • v. To harass with persistent requests.
  • v. To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
  • adj. Grievous, severe, exacting.
  • adj. inopportune; unseasonable
  • adj. troublesome; vexatious; persistent
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Inopportune; unseasonable.
  • adj. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or pertinacious solicitation.
  • v. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
  • v. To import; to signify.
  • verb-intransitive. To require; to demand.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Unseasonable; inopportune; untimely.
  • Importunate.
  • n. An importunate person; one offensively persistent.
  • To press or harass with solicitation; ply or beset with unremitting petitions or demands; crave or require persistently.
  • To crave or require persistently; beg for urgently.
  • To annoy; irritate; molest.
  • [A false use, by confusion with import.] To import; signify; mean.
  • Synonyms Request, Beg, Tease (see ask); appeal to, plead with, beset, urge, plague, worry, press, dun.
  • To make requests or demands urgently and persistently.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. beg persistently and urgently
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beg    implore    pray   
    Hyponym
    besiege   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
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