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beg
1[ beg ]
verb (used with object)
- to ask for as a gift, as charity, or as a favor: to beg forgiveness.
to beg alms;
to beg forgiveness.
- to ask (someone) to give or do something; implore:
He begged me for mercy.
Sit down, I beg you.
- to take for granted without basis or justification:
a statement that begs the very point we're disputing.
a report that consistently begs the whole problem.
verb (used without object)
- to ask alms or charity; live by asking alms.
- to ask humbly or earnestly: begging to differ.
begging for help;
begging to differ.
- (of a dog) to sit up, as trained, in a posture of entreaty.
verb phrase
- to request or obtain release from an obligation, promise, etc.:
He had promised to drive us to the recital but begged off at the last minute.
beg
2[ beyg, beg ]
noun
- bey.
beg.
3abbreviation for
- begin.
- beginning.
beg
1/ bɛɡ /
verb
- whenintr, often foll by for to solicit (for money, food, etc), esp in the street
- to ask (someone) for (something or leave to do something) formally, humbly, or earnestly
I beg to differ
I beg forgiveness
- intr (of a dog) to sit up with forepaws raised expectantly
- to leave unanswered or unresolved
to beg a point
- beg the question
- to evade the issue
- to assume the thing under examination as proved
- to suggest that a question needs to be asked
the firm's success begs the question: why aren't more companies doing the same?
- go begging or go a-beggingto be unwanted or unused
beg
2/ bɛɡ /
noun
- a variant of bey
Usage
Other Words From
- half-begging adjective
- un·begged adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of beg1
Word History and Origins
Origin of beg1
Idioms and Phrases
- beg the question,
- to assume the truth of the very point raised in a question.
- to evade the issue or avoid a direct answer.
- to raise the question; inspire one to ask.
- go begging, to remain open or available, as a position that is unfilled or an unsold item:
The job went begging for lack of qualified applicants.
More idioms and phrases containing beg
- go begging
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Trump attempted to publicly humiliate Zelenskyy and make him beg for America’s continued assistance in Ukraine’s freedom struggle against the Russian invaders.
I am begging my friends to leave, but they can’t hear me over the music.
The shotgun approach was such a disaster that the Trump administration then circled and begged 180 of the fired employees to come back.
She has released the emails - first reported in the Daily Record - begging for his name to be removed from the online record of his statement in the hope that his case would not be forgotten.
When Zelenskyy pushed back and refused to beg, the meeting ended without an agreement and he was told by Trump’s staff to leave the White House immediately.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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