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Definition of Beg
Beg

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

To take for granted; to assume without proof.

To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

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Beg Quotations

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.
Chuck Daly

Most people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton

Beg Translations

beg in Afrikaans is vra
beg in Danish is bede
beg in Dutch is schooien, bedelen
beg in French is implorer, mendier, prier
beg in German is betteln, bitten, bitten
beg in Italian is pregano, questuare
beg in Latin is obtestor, peto, precor, oro
beg in Portuguese is rogar, implore
beg in Spanish is rogar, mendigar, orar
beg in Swedish is tigga, bettla

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