Beg suggests earnestness or insistence in the asking. I begged him not to leave There are more and more homeless people begging on the streets these days
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She had to beg for money and food for her children
He begged a loan from his boss.
Beg may imply no more than standard courtesy (forgive me, i beg you), but in less formulaic expressions it usually suggests a respectful seriousness I begged her to tell me what was troubling her. If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it I begged him to come back to england with me
Idioms beg the question, to assume the truth of the point in dispute If you try to prove that the death penalty reduces crime by saying that crime is reduced by having the death penalty, you are begging the question. Definition of beg verb in oxford advanced learner's dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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