beg
/beg/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To ask for something, especially money or food, in a humble or desperate way: To make a request as a charity or due to need.
- To ask earnestly or humbly for something: To make a serious and often emotional request for a favor, help, or forgiveness.
- To evade or avoid answering a question: To assume the truth of the very point being argued, often in a logical fallacy.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- He had to beg for money on the street to survive.
- I beg you to reconsider your decision.
- The politician's argument simply begged the question instead of providing evidence.
Advanced Usage
- "to beg the question": To assume the conclusion of an argument as a premise; to avoid giving a direct answer.
- Saying we need a new leader because the current one is ineffective just begs the question of what makes him ineffective.
- "to beg off": To ask to be excused from an obligation or invitation.
- She had to beg off from the dinner party due to a sudden headache.
- "to beg pardon": To ask for forgiveness or to excuse oneself.
- I beg your pardon, I didn't mean to interrupt.
Variants and Related Words
- Beggar (n): A person who lives by asking for money or food.
- The beggar sat on the corner with a sign.
- Begging (n): The act of asking for something as charity.
- The city has laws against public begging.
Synonyms
- Plead: To make an emotional appeal.
- Implore: To beg earnestly or desperately.
- Solicit: To ask for or try to obtain something from someone.
- Beseech: To ask someone urgently and fervently to do something.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Beg for: To ask desperately for something specific.
- The refugees were begging for food and water.
- Beg from: To ask for charity from a particular person or group.
- He was too proud to beg from his relatives.
Related Idioms
- Go begging: To be unwanted or remain available.
- If these tickets go begging, you can have one.
- Beg, borrow, or steal: To obtain something by any means necessary.
- I'll beg, borrow, or steal to get the money for this project.
- I beg to differ: A polite way to say you disagree.
- I beg to differ; I believe the data supports the opposite conclusion.
Verb
- dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
- beg the question
- beg the point in the discussion
- ask to obtain free
- beg money and food
- 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
- call upon in supplication; entreat
- I beg you to stop!