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begging
noun
1 begging
A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person).
synonyms: beggary, mendicancy.
Roget 765:
request,
requisition;
claim
etc.
(demand)
741;
petition,
suit,
prayer;
begging letter,
round robin.
motion,
overture,
application,
canvass,
address,
appeal,
apostrophe;
imprecation;
rogation;
proposal,
proposition.
orison
etc.
(worship)
990;
incantation
etc.
(spell)
993.
mendicancy;
asking,
begging
etc.
v.;
postulation,
solicitation,
invitation,
entreaty,
importunity,
supplication,
instance,
impetration†,
imploration†,
obsecration†,
obtestation†,
invocation,
interpellation.
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Dutch: bedelarij, gebedel
Polish: żebranina
Moby thesaurus: adjuratory, appealing, beggary, beseeching, bumming, cadging, entreating, imploring, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mooching, panhandling, petitionary, pleading, prayerful, precative, precatory, scrounging, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory ... show more.
beg
verb
1 beg
Call upon in supplication; entreat:
— I beg you to stop!.
synonyms: implore, pray.
Roget 765:
request,
ask;
beg,
crave,
sue,
pray,
petition,
solicit,
invite,
pop the question,
make bold to ask;
beg leave,
beg a boon;
apply to,
call to,
put to;
call upon,
call for;
make a request,
address a request,
prefer a request,
put up a request,
make a prayer,
address a prayer,
prefer a prayer,
put up a prayer,
make a petition,
address a petition,
prefer a petition,
put up a petition;
make application,
make a requisition;
ask trouble,
ask one for;
claim
etc.
(demand)
741;
offer up prayers
etc.
(worship)
990;
whistle for.
beg hard,
entreat,
beseech,
plead,
supplicate,
implore;
conjure,
adjure;
obtest†;
cry to,
kneel to,
appeal to;
invoke,
evoke;
impetrate†,
imprecate,
ply,
press,
urge,
beset,
importune,
dun,
tax,
clamor for;
cry aloud,
cry for help;
fall on one's knees;
throw oneself at the feet of;
come down on one's marrowbones.
beg from door to door,
send the hat round,
go a begging;
mendicate†,
mump†,
cadge,
beg one's bread.
dance attendance on,
besiege,
knock at the door.
bespeak,
canvass,
tout,
make interest,
court;
seek,
bid for
etc.
(offer)
763;
publish the banns.
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Dutch: afsmeken, bidden, smeken, suppliëren
2 beg
Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently.
synonyms: solicit, tap.
3 beg
4 beg
Dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted.
noun
Roget 745:
master,
padrone;
lord,
lord paramount;
commander,
commandant;
captain;
chief,
chieftain;
sirdar†,
sachem,
sheik,
head,
senior,
governor,
ruler,
dictator;
leader
etc.
(director)
694;
boss,
cockarouse†,
sagamore,
werowance†.
lord of the ascendant;
cock of the walk,
cock of the roost;
gray mare;
mistress.
potentate;
liege,
liege lord;
suzerain,
sovereign,
monarch,
autocrat,
despot,
tyrant,
oligarch.
crowned head,
emperor,
king,
anointed king,
majesty,
imperator [Lat.],
protector,
president,
stadholder†,
judge.
ceasar,
kaiser,
czar,
tsar,
sultan,
soldan†,
grand Turk,
caliph,
imaum†,
shah,
padishah†,
sophi†,
mogul,
great mogul,
khan,
lama,
tycoon,
mikado,
tenno [Jap.],
inca,
cazique†;
voivode†;
landamman†;
seyyid†;
Abuna†,
cacique†,
czarowitz†,
grand seignior.
prince,
duke
etc.
(nobility)
875;
archduke,
doge,
elector;
seignior;
marland†,
margrave;
rajah,
emir,
wali,
sheik nizam†,
nawab.
empress,
queen,
sultana,
czarina,
princess,
infanta,
duchess,
margravine†;
czarevna†,
czarita†;
maharani,
rani,
rectrix†.
regent,
viceroy,
exarch†,
palatine,
khedive,
hospodar†,
beglerbeg†,
three-tailed bashaw†,
pasha,
bashaw†,
bey,
beg,
dey†,
scherif†,
tetrarch,
satrap,
mandarin,
subahdar†,
nabob,
maharajah;
burgrave†;
laird
etc.
(proprietor)
779;
collector,
commissioner,
deputy commissioner,
woon†.
the authorities,
the powers that be,
the government;
staff,
etat major [Fr.],
aga†,
official,
man in office,
person in authority;
sircar†,
sirkar†,
Sublime Porte.
[Military authorities]
marshal,
field marshal,
marechal†;
general,
generalissimo;
commander in chief,
seraskier†,
hetman†;
lieutenant general,
major general;
colonel,
lieutenant colonel,
major,
captain,
centurion,
skipper,
lieutenant,
first lieutenant,
second lieutenant,
sublieutenant,
officer,
staff officer,
aide-de-camp,
brigadier,
brigade major,
adjutant,
jemidar†,
ensign,
cornet,
cadet,
subaltern,
noncommissioned officer,
warrant officer;
sergeant,
sergeant major;
color sergeant;
corporal,
corporal major;
lance corporal,
acting corporal;
drum major;
captain general,
dizdar†,
knight marshal,
naik†,
pendragon.
[Civil authorities]
mayor,
mayoralty;
prefect,
chancellor,
archon,
provost,
magistrate,
syndic;
alcalde†,
alcaid†;
burgomaster,
corregidor†,
seneschal,
alderman,
councilman,
committeeman,
councilwoman,
warden,
constable,
portreeve†;
lord mayor;
officer
etc.
(executive)
965;
dewan†,
fonctionnaire [Fr.].
[Naval authorities]
admiral,
admiralty;
rear admiral,
vice admiral,
port admiral;
commodore,
captain,
commander,
lieutenant,
ensign,
skipper,
mate,
master,
officer of the day,
OD;
navarch†.
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Moby thesaurus: 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, entreat, escape, evade, generate, get, get around, get away from, get out of, hit, hit up, impetrate, implore, importune, imprecate, invoke, kneel to, mooch, multiply, nag, obtest, panhandle, pass the hat, petition, plead, plead for, pray, press, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce, request, run to, scrounge, shake, shake off, shuffle out of, sire, skirt, solicit, sue, supplicate, touch, worry ... show more.
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