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How to pronounce beg in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms solicit, tap
Type of bespeak, ask for, request, call for, quest
Has types quest, lobby, canvass, buttonhole
Derivation beggary
Type Words
Synonyms implore, pray
Type of plead
Has types supplicate, crave, importune, insist
Derivation beggary


I beg you to stop!.
Type Words
Type of ask for, call for, bespeak, request, quest
Has types cadge, panhandle, shnorr, scrounge, schnorr
Derivation beggary


beg money and food.
Type Words
Type of evade, hedge, skirt, duck, parry, dodge, put off, circumvent, sidestep, elude, fudge


beg the question.
beg the point in the discussion.

Examples of beg

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House Republicans, seeing the heavy hand of a too-big government, beg to differ.
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Three hours later, alone in my room I had to almost beg them to bring her to me.
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Then beg her to rewrite it into something a normal human being might understand.
From the forbes.com
I had to give back the company car immediately and beg my dad to borrow his car.
From the telegraph.co.uk
My children get annoyed when I give them brown rice and they beg for white rice.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Nettie can tryannize one moment and pathetically beg $5 house money in the next.
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I would beg them not to make me go because it was boring and made my knees hurt.
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She's tried to get off boards as she's gotten older, but people beg her to stay.
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We had to beg and borrow everything just to do the first car, which wasn't much.
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More examples
  • Call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
  • Solicit: make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"
  • Ask to obtain free; "beg money and food"
  • Dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion"
  • (begging) beggary: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
  • The Flight (Russian: u0411u0435u0433, transliteration Beg) is a 1970 Soviet historical drama film, mainly based on writer Mikhail Bulgakov's play Flight, but also on his novel The White Guard and his libretto Black Sea...
  • The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume is the debut album of Canadian rock band Evans Blue. It was released on February 21, 2006 (see 2006 in music). The album spawned two singles, "Cold (But I'm Still Here)" and "Over. ...
  • Begging (or panhandling in the US) is to request a donation in a supplicating manner. Beggars are commonly found in public places such as street corners or public transport, where they request money, most commonly in the form of spare change. ...
  • (BEGGING) To dream that you have lost everything and are begging for food or money is fortunate and tells you that plans are going well.