Definition of beg

"beg" in the verb sense

1. beg, implore, pray

call upon in supplication entreat

"I beg you to stop!"

2. solicit, beg, tap

make a solicitation or entreaty for something request urgently or persistently

"Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"

"My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"

3. beg

ask to obtain free

"beg money and food"

4. beg

dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted

"beg the question"

"beg the point in the discussion"

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Quotations for beg

Confess debt, and beg days. [ Proverb ]

To beg teeth of a roost-cock. [ Proverb ]

The rich need not beg a welcome. [ Proverb ]

God help the rich, the poor can beg. [ Proverb ]

See how they beg an alms of flattery! [ Young ]

As good beg of a naked man as of a miser. [ Proverb ]

To beg a courtesy is to sell one's liberty. [ Proverb ]

A good tongue has seldom need to beg attention. [ Proverb ]

Who spends before he thrives, will beg before he thinks. [ Proverb ]

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. [ Catherine of Russia ]

Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it. [ Proverb ]

Great thoughts and a pure heart are the things we should beg for ourselves from God. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? [ Milton ]

As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. [ George Washington ]

He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who is in want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. [ Colton ]

beg in Scrabble®

The word beg is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters beg:

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The 23 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In beg

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beg in Words With Friends™

The word beg is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters beg:

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Words within the letters of beg

2 letter words in beg (1 word)

3 letter words in beg (1 word)

beg + 1 blank (1 word)

Word Growth involving beg

Shorter words in beg

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Longer words containing beg

began rebegan

beget begets

beget begetter begetters

beget begetting misbegetting

beget misbeget misbegetting

beggar beggared

beggar beggaring

beggar beggarlike

beggar beggarliness

beggar beggarly

beggar beggars

beggar beggarweed beggarweeds

beggar beggary

begged outbegged

begging outbegging

begin beginner beginners rebeginners

begin beginner rebeginner rebeginners

begin beginning beginningless

begin beginning beginnings

begin beginning rebeginning

begin begins rebegins

begin rebegin rebeginner rebeginners

begin rebegin rebeginning

begin rebegin rebegins

begirdle begirdled

begirdle begirdles

begirdling

beglamor beglamored

beglamor beglamoring

beglamor beglamors

beglamour beglamoured

beglamour beglamouring

beglamour beglamours

beglerbeg beglerbegs

begloom begloomed

begloom beglooming

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begnaw begnawed

begnaw begnawing

begnaw begnawn

begnaw begnaws

begoggle begoggled

begoggle begoggles

begoggling

begone woebegone

begonia begonias

begot begotten misbegotten

begot misbegot misbegotten

begreased

begreases

begreasing

begrime begrimed

begrime begrimer begrimers

begrime begrimes

begriming

begrudge begrudged

begrudge begrudges

begrudging begrudgingly

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begs philabegs

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begs phillabegs

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beguile beguiled

beguile beguilement

beguile beguiler beguilers

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beguiling beguilingly

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begun rebegun

bribegiver bribegivers

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filabeg filabegs

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fillibeg fillibegs

outbeg outbegged

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outbeg outbegs

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philibeg philibegs

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