All importune synonyms

verb importune

• beset — If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
• press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
• crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
• persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
• plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
• hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
• badger — A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
• sell — to transfer (goods) to or render (services) for another in exchange for money; dispose of to a purchaser for a price: He sold the car to me for $1000.
• nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
• pray — to offer devout petition, praise, thanks, etc., to (God or an object of worship).
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• implore — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
• solicit — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
• appeal — If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them.
• urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
• invoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
• besiege — If you are besieged by people, many people want something from you and continually bother you.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• ask — If you ask someone something, you say something to them in the form of a question because you want to know the answer.
• beseech — If you beseech someone to do something, you ask them very eagerly and anxiously.
• beg — If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• dun — to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
• goose — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
• egg on — to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).
• work on — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
• pursue — to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• insist — to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
• entreat — Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.