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[ verb ] call upon in supplication; entreat
Examples "I beg you to stop!" Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going_out alone on New_Year's_Eve , I knew for a moment an immense relief ; but the letter went_on : she had cried , she had implored , she had been miserable at his refusal , and finally he had relented - and now how happy she was , how expectant ! (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)`` Shh '' , Felix implored . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Hell 's own amount of chaulmoogra_oil did nothing to alleviate their torment ; they expired amid indescribable fantods , imploring the Blessed_One to forgive their desecration . |
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