Verb: beg (begged,begging) beg
- Call upon in supplication; entreat
"I beg you to stop!";
- implore, pray
- Request money, food, etc. from someone without any payment
"beg money and food"
- Ask for something
"Henry IV begged the Pope for a divorce";
- solicit
- Dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
"beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion"
Derived forms: begging, begs, begged
See also: excuse
Type of: ask for, bespeak, call for, circumnavigate, circumvent, dodge, duck [informal], elude, evade, finesse, fudge, hedge, parry, plead, put off, request, sidestep, skirt
Encyclopedia: Beg, Farhat Nadeem