Im·por·tune, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Importuned p. pr. & vb. n. Importuning.]
1. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. --Swift.
2. To import; to signify. [Obs.] “It importunes death.”