Importune synonyms
ĭm'pôr-to͝on', -tyo͝on', ĭm-pôr'chən
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Part of speech:
To entreat or plead with; ask, persuade, or solicit earnestly; press; exhort
beg (related)
To ask (permission) to do something:
To put a question to:
To ask to know or be informed of
Bible, 1 Mac. x. 47
To assert or demand (something) firmly or persistently:
Supplicate is to humbly pray or beg for something.
To separate the structural parts of a tissue, as with a needle, in order to prepare it for microscopic examination.
To keep bringing up, going over, or returning to (a matter difficult to solve)
To ask or nag (someone) about something in an annoying and persistent way; pester:
(Intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.
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To offer reasons for or against something; argue earnestly:
To ask or beg (a person) to do something; entreat
To surround with troops; besiege:
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To irritate or torment persistently:
Harry is defined as to raid, or to quickly move along.
Hound is defined as to hunt, chase or urge on.
Pester is defined as to pick on or irritate.
To afflict with a plague
Troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating:
Firm in asserting a demand or an opinion; unyielding.
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Conveying a sense of pressing importance:
attack (related)
To start work on with purpose and vigor:
continue (related)
Firm or obstinate, as in making a demand or maintaining a stand
threatning (related)
insolent (related)
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