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English to English noun
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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey. | source: webster1913 verb
| 2 |
call upon in supplication; entreat |
• I beg you to stop!
source: wordnet30
| 3 |
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
source: wordnet30 Example:
• beg money and food
source: wordnet30
| 5 |
dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted |
• beg the question
• beg the point in the discussion
source: wordnet30
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To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech. | source: webster1913
| 7 |
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. | source: webster1913
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