Thesaurus: importune

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1. a. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
2. a. To import; to signify.
3. v. i. To require; to demand.
4. v. beg persistently and urgently
5. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. [Obs.] 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. [Obs.] And their importune fates all satisfied. Spenser. Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual. Bacon. 1. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry. Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. Swift. 2. To import; to signify. [Obs.] "It importunes death." Spenser. To require; to demand. [Obs.] We shall write to you, As time and our concernings shall importune. Shak.
6. To require; to demand. [Obs.]We shall write to you, As time and our concernings shall importune.Shak.
7. v:100 v. beg persistently and urgently