| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To trouble.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To tease. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To solicit. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To insist. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To cover. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To badger. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To molest or pester.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb importune.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (importune) | 1. Beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them".[Wordnet]. 2. To require; to demand.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: importuning, importuned, importunes, importuner, importuners, importuningly and importunedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "IMPORTUNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: importune
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To request with urgency; to press with solicitation; to urge with frequent or unceasing application. Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands.. | 2: [Adjective] Pressing in request; urgent; troublesome by frequent demands; vexatious; unreasonable.. | 3: [Adjective] Unseasonable. [This word is obsolete; being superseded by importunate, unless perhaps in poetry.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] Approach to offer one's services as a prostitute. (references) | 2: [Verb] Harass with persistent requests. (references) | |
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