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▸ verb: (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
▸ verb: (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
▸ verb: (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
▸ verb: (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
▸ verb: (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
▸ verb: (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
▸ noun: The act of begging; an imploring request.
▸ noun: A surname from Hindi.
▸ noun: (history) Alternative form of bey [(historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions]
▸ noun: (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.]
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