importune
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they importune | |
| he / she / it importunes | |
| past simple importuned | |
| past participle importuned | |
| -ing form importuning |
- 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’).