Synonyms of the word beg


BEGBESPEAK - IMPLORE - PLEAD - PRAY - QUEST - REQUEST - SOLICIT - TAP

beg

  • v. (intransitive) to request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
  • v. (transitive) to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
  • v. (transitive) to assume, in the phrase beg the question.
  • v. (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question.
  • v. (law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
  • n. a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.
  • abbr. (knitting) beginning.

bespeak

  • v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
  • v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
  • v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
  • v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
  • v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
  • n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

implore

  • v. To beg urgently or earnestly.
  • v. To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.

plead

  • v. To present an argument, especially in a legal case.
  • v. To beg, beseech, or implore.

pray

  • v. To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.
  • v. To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
  • v. (religion) To communicate with God for any reason.
  • v. (obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
  • adv. Please; used to make a polite request.

quest

  • n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
  • n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
  • n. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
  • n. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
  • n. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
  • v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
  • v. To search for; to examine.
  • v. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

request

  • n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
  • n. A formal message requesting something.
  • n. Condition of being sought after.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
  • v. to express the need or desire for.
  • v. to ask somebody to do something.

solicit

  • v. To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
  • v. To woo; to court.
  • v. To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.
  • v. To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.
  • v. To make a petition.
  • v. (archaic) To disturb or trouble; to harass.
  • v. To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To disturb; to disquiet.

tap

  • n. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
  • n. A device used to dispense liquids.
  • n. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
  • n. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
  • n. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die…
  • n. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
  • n. An interception of communication by authority.
  • v. To furnish with taps.
  • v. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
  • v. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
  • v. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
  • v. To intercept a communication without authority.
  • v. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
  • v. (card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already…
  • n. Device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
  • v. To strike lightly.
  • v. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
  • v. To make a sharp noise.
  • v. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
  • v. (slang, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • v. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
  • v. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
  • v. To put a new sole or heel on.
  • n. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
  • n. tap dance.
  • n. (computing) The act of touching a touch screen.
  • n. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel;…
  • n. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring…
  • n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard…

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