beg

beg has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 3.

Definitions

• n.. A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
• v. t.. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
• v. t.. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
• v. t.. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
• v. t.. To take for granted; to assume without proof.
• v. t.. To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
• v. i.. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
• v.. call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
• v.. 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"
• v.. dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion"
• v.. ask to obtain free; "beg money and food"