verb#1,278 by frequency
beg
/ˈbɛɡ/
To request the help of someone, often in the form of money; To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat; To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction
- he/she/it
- begs
- past participle
- begged
Meanings
- 1
To request the help of someone, often in the form of money
Tom begged Mary to stay.
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I begged Tom to stay.
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- 2
To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat
- 3
To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction
- 4
To obviously lack or be in need of something
- 5
In the phrase beg the question: to assumerare
- 6
In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question)rare
- 7
To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed forrare