begged

Verb

beg (third-person singular simple present begs, present participle begging, simple past and past participle begged)

1. (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
   • He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
2. (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
   • I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence.

   Synonyms:

   supplicate

3. (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
   • The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
   • A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation
5. (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
6. (proscribed, transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

   Antonyms:

   set aside

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