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Meaning beg meaning

What does beg mean?
Definitions in simple English

beg Verb

— If you beg someone for something or to do something, you ask them very strongly, but you are in a weak position. He had a gun to my head. I begged him, "Please, don't shoot me."

beg

— verb call upon in supplication; entreat I beg you to stop! — verb (= 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 — verb ask to obtain free beg money and food — verb dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted beg the question beg the point in the discussion

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beg English » English

request ask entreat implore beseech plead ask for pray solicit demand appeal cadge wish supplicate importune urge panhandle bid crave petition pester beg for plead with nag tap sue seek after please invite ask for alms want sue for seek pray for plea obtest mump invoke importune for implore for fish desire crave for call for bespeak beseech for appeal for help whinge wheedle sponge

Topics beg topics

What do people use beg to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Share wealth

Beg
Social behavior Conflict Peace Repent

Request forgiveness
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Honorifics

Conjugation beg conjugation

How do you conjugate beg?

beg · verb

Examples beg examples

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Simple sentences

I beg your pardon?
Do you want me to beg for my life?
I won't do it even if you beg me on bended knee.
I beg your pardon; I didn't quite catch your name.
I beg to differ.
I beg you, give me a visa.
Zen priests beg for alms near Shinjuku station.
I beg your pardon. What did you say?
When only death remains, the last resort is to beg for food.
I made you wait so long; I beg your forgiveness.
I beg you, give me a bottle!
I beg you to help me.
I beg you to help us.
I can't stop you from revealing my secrets. However, I beg you not to.
I beg to differ, as I disagree with your analysis of the situation.
Stop yelling, I beg you.
I beg of you to listen carefully.
I beg to differ with you.
I beg your pardon.
I beg you.

Movie subtitles

I beg you.
And if that sounds flippant I beg you to forgive me because I absolutely did not mean it to.
Dear Countess, please, I beg you to keep your promess to meet tomorrow afternoon, in the usual place.
I beg to inform you that the administration of your property in the Rue de Varennes will require your immediate presence.
I beg you not to push this exile away.
I beg you to allow me to embrace my sister.
I beg you, spare him!
I beg you, do not go to the king.
I only have a penny and I beg you once again to give me a little ammount of money.
I have just learned that you are back in town, and I beg you, I hope to see you this evening.
I beg you, Peter, for God's sake, take the money and return the contract to me.
I BEG YOU. HAVE MERCY.
I beg your pardon that I brote off our conversation in this way.
I will beg the manager of the school, I will beg.
Please. I beg you!
I beg you!
That nature gave me, together with this face and this hump, such feelings, such greed. I beg you, quiet!
I beg my noble guests not to disdain my invitation, just a simple meal.
I beg you, stay.
Hoping this finds you, I beg to remain.
Beg your pardon, Lord Figtree.
Now that we're gonna be friends, they'll probably bring their families over here to beg.
I beg your pardon, sir.
Beg your pardon, sir.
I beg your pardon.
I beg you to stay the night here.
We have already trained together before-- Do you want me to kneel and beg you?
Oh, I beg your pardon.
Your daughter called you to beg you for help, and you refuse her?
I beg your pardon?
I beg you, please do not punish the young woman.
I beg you to pardon him!
I beg you - do not go before the king.
Let me find Kate and beg her to stay.
Forget her, I beg you!
I beg your pardon, sir, but you would make us very happy. if you'd set an earlier date for our wedding.
I beg your pardon, sir. I thought I heard a strange voice.
I beg your pardon, sir. but may I suggest that you ought to amuse yourself.
I beg to congratulate you, sir!

News and current affairs

But they also point to the upside: the oil industry, in its never-ending search for more reserves, need not beg Congress for the right to despoil Alaska.
Globalization has generated a new global market, but also global risks that beg for collective management.
It would be unfortunate if the finance ministers merely sit around and beg Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet to rescue them with rate cuts.
Perhaps the administration worries that it cannot simultaneously beg for lower dollar oil prices and help promote a weaker dollar.
I beg to differ; my reading of the evidence suggests that donors really do need to take extreme care not to make things worse, and that this is far more difficult to achieve in corrupt countries than the UN suggests.
Having lost their homes and parents, they sleep in alleys, sell cigarettes or newspapers, and beg.
This tendency was not a serious issue before World War II (though the people of Abyssinia and Manchuria may beg to differ).
There have been other times in France's history when entire segments of the electorate have ejected themselves from the game, without the rest of the players rushing over to beg them to get back on the field.
Musharraf is now desperate to beg, steal, or borrow any political legitimacy he can get - including from the two civilian political leaders he exiled.
While bureaucratic excess, entrenched corruption, and other inefficiencies beg remedy, the real challenge before India is its allegiance to a twentieth-century vision of modernity.
Their fecklessness and recklessness are what convince much of the world that Africans can do nothing but dance, slaughter each other, and beg.
As an intellectual, Tajbakhsh cannot expect the world's celebrities to beg Iran's government for his release.
But the political agenda that he espoused while in office passed away long ago, on May 19, 1989, when he appeared in Tiananmen Square just before dawn to beg tearfully for the forgiveness of protesters.
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