importune
verb🔊/ˌɪmpɔːˈtjuːn/
🔊/ˌɪmpɔːrˈtuːn/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they importune | 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːˈtjuːn/ 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːrˈtuːn/ |
| he / she / it importunes | 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːˈtjuːnz/ 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːrˈtuːnz/ |
| past simple importuned | 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːˈtjuːnd/ 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːrˈtuːnd/ |
| past participle importuned | 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːˈtjuːnd/ 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːrˈtuːnd/ |
| -ing form importuning | 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːˈtjuːnɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌɪmpɔːrˈtuːnɪŋ/ |
- importune somebody (for something) | importune somebody to do something
to ask somebody for something many times and in a way that is annoying 再三要求；纠缠 Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French importuner or medieval Latin importunari, from Latin importunus ‘inconvenient, unseasonable’, based on Portunus, the name of the god who protected harbours (from portus ‘harbour’).