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  • 21beg — [[t]bɛg[/t]] v. begged, beg•ging. 1) to ask for as a gift, as charity, or as a favor: to beg alms; to beg forgiveness[/ex] 2) to ask (someone) to give or do something; implore: He begged me for help[/ex] 3) to avoid; evade: a report that begs the …

    From formal English to slang

  • 22beg — verb (begs, begging, begged) 1》 ask (someone) earnestly or humbly for something.     ↘ask for (something) earnestly or humbly: he begged their forgiveness.     ↘(beg off) withdraw from a promise or undertaking. 2》 ask for food or money as charity …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 23beg — [beg] v past tense and past participle begged present participle begging ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(ask)¦ 2¦(money/food)¦ 3¦(animal)¦ 4 I beg your pardon 5 I beg to differ 6 beg the question 7 be going begging 8 beg, borrow, or steal ▬▬▬▬▬ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 24Off Beat Cinema — is a two hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout North America late at night and features the Good, the Bad, the Foreign... but mostly cult movies like Night of the Living Dead, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and… …

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  • 25beg — verb 1 I beg your pardon spoken a) used to say sorry when you have made a mistake, or said something wrong or embarrassing: Oh, I beg your pardon. I thought you meant next Tuesday. b) used to show that you strongly disagree with something that… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26beg — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. implore, beseech; ask alms. See poverty, request. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To ask earnestly or importunately] Syn. entreat, implore, beseech, ask, supplicate, crave, solicit, pray for, urge, plead, sue …

    English dictionary for students

  • 27beg — 01. I don t like it when a dog comes and [begs] for food at the table. 02. The children [begged] us to take them to Disneyland for a holiday. 03. The old man was able to make a few dollars a day [begging] on the street. 04. Ian [begged] his wife… …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 28beg the question — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, around the bush, beat about, beat around, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, hedge, hem and haw, mystify, nitpick, obscure, palter, parry, pick… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 29beg — v 1. ask for, apply for, seek, request, ask, call upon; appeal to, implore, beseech, entreat, plead, Brit. Inf. prig, pray, crave; petition, solicit, supplicate, obtest, adjure, conjure, Rare. sue; urge, press, importune, insist, demand. 2. seek… …

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  • 30beg — Synonyms and related words: adjure, appeal, appeal to, ask, bear, beget, beseech, besiege, brace, breed, bum, cadge, call for help, call on, call upon, circumvent, clamor for, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, demand, ditch, double, elude …

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