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      beg
      noun
      The act of begging; an imploring request.
      A surname from Hindi.
      (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning. [(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.]
      (history) Alternative form of bey. [(historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman) dominions.]
      verb
      (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
      (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
      (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
      (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
      (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
      (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
      (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
      Synonyms for beg
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