Other forms: implored, implores, imploring
To implore is to beg somebody urgently. Implore them to stop, imploring eyes, I implore you.
It is stronger than ask and more desperate than urge, and it is formal enough that using it marks the situation as serious — or, in speech, marks the speaker as being theatrical. Imploring is often used of a look rather than words. Note imploring, imploringly; and that the Latin behind it means to weep or cry out, which is a good deal more vivid than the English.
1verbimploreTo beg somebody urgently.
“She implored the doctor to let her see her son.”
implore is an urgent begging.
Also accepted in games: beseech
Latin implorare is in plus plorare, to cry out or weep. Deplore and explore come from the same crying — to explore was once to cry out on finding something.
Proto-Indo-European
*pleh₃(w)- — to flow; to swim
Latin
implōrāre
Middle French
implorer
English, today
implore
Built from
The verb is borrowed from Middle French implorer (modern French implorer (“to beg, plead, implore”)), or directly from its etymon Latin implōrāre, the present active infinitive of implōrō (“to beseech, entreat, implore; to appeal to, pray to”), from im- (a variant of in-) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain, deplore, lament”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)). The noun is derived from the verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA