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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 ]

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beg in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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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)

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3 letter words in beg (1 word)

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beg + 1 blank (1 word)

begs

beg + 2 blanks (23 words)

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Word Growth involving beg

Shorter words in beg

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Longer words containing beg

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