beg, entreat, beseech, implore, supplicate, adjure, importune mean to ask urgently. beg suggests earnestness or insistence in the asking.

There are more and more homeless people begging on the streets these days. She had to beg for money and food for her children. He begged a loan from his boss.

If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it. I begged him to come back to England with me. [VERB noun to-infinitive] I begged to be allowed to leave. [VERB to …

Idioms beg the question, to assume the truth of the point in dispute: If you try to prove that the death penalty reduces crime by saying that crime is reduced by having the death penalty, you are begging …

Beg may imply no more than standard courtesy (forgive me, I beg you), but in less formulaic expressions it usually suggests a respectful seriousness: I begged her to tell me what was troubling her.

Beg may imply no more than standard courtesy (forgive me, I beg you), but in less formulaic expressions it usually suggests a respectful seriousness: I begged her to tell me what was troubling her.

BEG definition: to ask for as a gift, as charity, or as a favor: to beg forgiveness. See examples of beg used in a sentence.

Beggar in the street of Nishapur, Iran, 2009 Begging directed at passing traffic, Denver, Colorado, 2018 Begging at traffic lights in Patras, Greece, 2010 Beggar in Uppsala, Sweden, 2014 Begging from …

I beg your pardon. (Definition of beg from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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