Beg

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To ask for as charity: begged money while sitting in a doorway.
  • v. To ask earnestly for or of; entreat: begged me for help.
  • v. To evade; dodge: a speech that begged the real issues.
  • v. To take for granted without proof: beg the point in a dispute.
  • verb-intransitive. To solicit alms.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a humble or urgent plea.
  • phrasal-verb. beg off To ask to be released from something, such as an obligation: We were invited to stay for dinner, but we had to beg off.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
  • v. to plead with someone for help or for a favor
  • v. to assume, in the phrase beg the question
  • v. to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question
  • n. a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey
  • abbreviation. beginning
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
  • v. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
  • v. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
  • v. To make petition to; to entreat.
  • v. To take for granted; to assume without proof.
  • v. To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.
  • verb-intransitive. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To ask for or supplicate in charity; ask as alms.
  • To ask for earnestly; crave.
  • To ask as a favor; hence, to beseech; entreat or supplicate with humility or earnestness: as, I begged him to use his influence in favor of my friend.
  • Synonyms Ask, Request. Beg, etc. (see ask); to pray (for), conjure, petition (for).
  • To ask alms or charity; practise begging; live by asking alms.
  • In the game of all-fours, to ask of the dealer a concession of one point to be added to one's count.
  • n. Same as bey.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
  • v. dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
  • v. call upon in supplication; entreat
  • v. ask to obtain free
  • Antonym
    set    l    en    aside   
    Verb Form
    begged    begging    begs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    skirt    evade    hedge    parry    fudge    elude    duck    dodge    circumvent    sidestep   
    Variant
    begged    begging   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bey    request    ask    entreat   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Greg    Gregg    Meg    Peg    Reg    clegg    egg    egge    gegg    gregg   
    Same Context
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