different between implore vs sue

English

Alternative forms

• emplore (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French implorer, from Latin impl?r? (“I beseech, I implore”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?pl??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?pl??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?m?plo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?m?plo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: im?plore

Verb

implore (third-person singular simple present implores, present participle imploring, simple past and past participle implored)

1. To beg urgently or earnestly.
2. To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.

Synonyms

• entreat

Translations

French

Verb

implore

1. first-person singular present indicative of implorer
2. third-person singular present indicative of implorer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of implorer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of implorer
5. second-person singular imperative of implorer

Portuguese

Verb

implore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of implorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of implorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of implorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of implorar

Spanish

Verb

implore

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of implorar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of implorar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of implorar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) ( > French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue, sew (etymology 2)

Verb

sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)

1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.

   • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III. iv:

     though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sue.

Derived terms

• sue for peace

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• EUS, SEU, UEs, ues, use

References

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su??/, /su?e?/

Adjective

sue

1. small

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy/
• Homophones: su, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
• Rhymes: -y

Verb

sue

1. inflection of suer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. feminine singular past participle of savoir

Anagrams

• eus, use, usé

Italian

Etymology

From Latin suae.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: su?e

Adjective

sue

1. his, her, its; plural of sua

Japanese

Romanization

sue

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?su.e/, [?s?u?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?su.e/, [?su??]

Verb

sue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of su?

Noun

sue

1. ablative singular of s?s

Middle English

Noun

sue

1. Alternative form of sowe

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: su?e

Verb

sue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of suar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suar

Tarantino

Pronoun

sue m (possessive, feminine soje)

1. his