IMPORTUNE Synonyms

• make a request or demand for something to somebody

• direct or put; seek an answer to

• consider obligatory; request and expect

• address a question to and expect an answer from

• require as useful, just, or proper

• make a date

• require or ask for as a price or condition

• call upon in supplication; entreat

• make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently

• ask to obtain free

• dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted

• ask for or request earnestly

• ask for or request earnestly

• annoy continually or chronically

• make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

• an angry disturbance

• disorderly fighting

• annoy continually or chronically

• call upon in supplication; entreat

• annoy persistently

• appeal or request earnestly

• offer as an excuse or plea

• enter a plea, as in courts of law

• make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts

• the state of demanding notice or attention

• the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines

• a machine used for printing

• a dense crowd of people

• a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

• clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use

• any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids

• a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead

• the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure

• exert pressure or force to or upon

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• to be oppressive or burdensome

• place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure

• squeeze or press together

• crowd closely

• create by pressing

• be urgent

• exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for

• press from a plastic

• make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby

• press and smooth with a heated iron

• lift weights

• ask for or request earnestly

• the act of applying force in order to move something away

• the force used in pushing

• enterprising or ambitious drive

• an electrical switch operated by pressing

• an effort to advance

• move with force

• press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action

• make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

• strive and make an effort to reach a goal

• press against forcefully without moving

• approach a certain age or speed

• exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for

• sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)

• move strenuously and with effort

• make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby

• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

• the verbal act of requesting

• express the need or desire for

• ask (a person) to do something

• inquire for (information)

• an instinctive motive

• a strong restless desire

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• push for something

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge

• beg persistently and urgently

• postulate positively and assertively