Dictionary Entry
beg
beg is a 3-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
- 2transitive verb
To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
- 3transitive verb
To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
- 4transitive verb
To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
- 5transitive verb
To take for granted; to assume without proof.
- 6transitive verb
To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
- 7intransitive verb
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
- 8verb
call upon in supplication; entreat
"I beg you to stop!"
- 9verb
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"
- 10verb
dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
"beg the question"
"beg the point in the discussion"
- 11verb
ask to obtain free
"beg money and food"
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