Usually means: Beg earnestly; beseech urgently
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word implore:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. implore: Merriam-Webster
  2. implore: Wordnik
  3. implore: Cambridge English Dictionary
  4. implore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  5. implore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  6. implore: Collins English Dictionary
  7. implore: Vocabulary.com
  8. implore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. implore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. implore: Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997)
  11. Implore, implore: Dictionary.com
  12. implore: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. implore: Rhymezone (WordNet)
  14. implore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. implore: TheFreeDictionary.com (American Heritage)
  16. implore: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. implore: Oxford English Dictionary

General (historical) (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. implore (1755), implore (1755), implore (1773), implore (1773): Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
  2. implore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  3. implore: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

User-edited (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. implore: Wiktionary
  2. Implore: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See implored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.
verb:  (transitive) To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to beseech, to entreat.
verb:  (intransitive) Often followed by for (a thing) or of (a person): to express an earnest or urgent plea.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) An act of begging or pleading earnestly or urgently; an entreaty, an imploration or imploring, a plea.

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