importune
21importune — im|por|tune [ ,ımpər tun, ım pɔrtʃən ] verb transitive VERY FORMAL to keep asking someone for something in a determined and annoying way …
22importune — [[t]ɪ̱mpɔː(r)tju͟ːn, AM tu͟ːn[/t]] importunes, importuning, importuned VERB (disapproval) If someone importunes another person, they ask them for something or ask them to do something, in an annoying way. [FORMAL] [V n] One can no longer walk the …
23importune — im·por·tune || ‚ɪmpÉ”r tuËn / pÉ”Ë tjuËn v. pester, harass with insistent demands, persistently beseech …
24importune — to offer sexual services for money Literally, to beseech. Legal jargon of prostitutes who solicit customers in public places …
25importune — [ˌɪmpɔ: tju:n] verb 1》 harass with persistent requests. 2》 [usu. as noun importuning] approach to offer one s services as a prostitute. Origin C16: from Fr. importuner or med. L. importunari, from L. importunus (see importunate) …
26importune — v. a. Press (by entreaty), urge (by repeated requests), beset, entreat, dun, solicit earnestly …
27importune — verb (T) formal to ask someone for something repeatedly, especially in an annoying or unreasonable way; beg (+ for): importuning passers by for money …
28importune — verb he importuned her for some spare change Syn: beg, beseech, entreat, implore, plead with, appeal to, call on, lobby; harass, pester, press, badger, bother, nag, harry; informal hassle, bug See note at …
29importune — v 1. beset, ply, dun, tax, besiege, press, push; set upon, urge, call upon, insist, Inf. work on; plead, appeal to, clamor for, cry for; supplicate, beseech, entreat, implore, beg, sue, petition, solicit; pray, appeal, adjure, obtest,… …
30importune — im·por·tune …
