importune
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/icons/point.icon BEG, ENTREAT, BESEECH, IMPLORE, SUPPLICATE, ADJURE, IMPORTUNE mean to ask urgently.
BEG suggests earnestness or insistence in the asking.
e.g. they begged for help
ENTREAT implies an effort to persuade or to overcome resistance.
e.g. entreated me to join them
BESEECH and IMPLORE imply a deeply felt anxiety.
e.g. I beseech you to have mercy implored her not to leave him
SUPPLICATE suggests a posture of humility.
e.g. with bowed heads they supplicated their Lord
ADJURE implies advising as well as pleading.
e.g. we were adjured to tell the truth
IMPORTUNE suggests an annoying persistence in trying to break down resistance to a request.
e.g. importuning viewers for contributions
verb with object
harass (someone) persistently for or to do something:
«…を» 〈人〉にうるさく［しつこく］せがむ［ねだる］ «for» ; 〖～ A to do〗 A〈人〉に…するよううるさく［しつこく］頼む.
e.g. reporters importuned him with pointed questions
e.g. with object and infinitive : the president would importune them to try harder.
approach (someone) to request or offer sexual services, especially as a prostitute:
〈売春婦が〉〈客〉を引く
e.g. the girl is charged with loitering in a public place with intent to solicit or importune another person.
ORIGIN
mid 16th century: from French importuner or medieval Latin importunari, from Latin importunus ‘inconvenient, unseasonable’ (see importunate).