beg
IPA: bˈɛg
noun
- The act of begging; an imploring request.
- A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.
- A surname from Hindi.
- (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning. [(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.]
verb
- (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
- (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
- (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
- (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
- (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
- (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
- (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
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Examples of "beg" in Sentences
- It was the begging of his crass style.
- The crow begs the sparrow for shelter.
- Most people do not pray; they only beg.
- The citizen had to beg for the answers.
- All the arguments are begging the question.
- She begged pardon to the head of the family.
- I'm begging you, for the rest of the newscast.
- Everyone has to beg for the favours of the leaders.
- Please, I beg of you, do not take this as an attack.
- They dropped to their knees and begged for forgiveness.
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