0 past simple and past participle of implore
1 to ask someone to do or not do something in a very sincere, emotional, and determined way:
Someone should have implored her at all costs to persist.
Nascent nineteenth-century sanitary experts implored people to burn as much of their waste as possible in home fires.
During years of bad harvests, villages implored the local priest to come and offer up prayers for rain.
Even though multiple trade-union leaders had implored the workers to end the strike, the laborers remained unconvinced and kept raising slogans.
It is also conceivable, given the context of an open-air celebration, that those in attendance were implored to join the singing of the refrain.
He implored his brother to respect his wife's right to keep the property for the rest of her life, but the brother would not concede.
Wielding a mixture of filth and germ theory, and assorted forms of contagionism, sanitary engineers implored local authorities to abandon tipping and adopt burning before the visitation of an epidemic.
Think of the fraud perpetrated on the thrifty who had been implored to save and not to spend.
