implore
Plural: implores
Verb
Verb Forms: implored, imploring, implores
- To beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.
- call upon in supplication; entreat
- To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.
- To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to beseech, to entreat.
- Often followed by for (a thing) or of (a person): to express an earnest or urgent plea.
Noun
- An act of begging or pleading earnestly or urgently; an entreaty, an imploration or imploring, a plea.
Examples
- I implore you, use your ’Q’ now, or I’ll block the triple word score!
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*h₁én
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”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Scrabble Score: 11
implore: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordimplore: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
implore: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary