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Meanings of beg in English

Russian
бек
Wikidata

Noble title.

Related terms
бек
Portuguese
rogar
Catalan
implorar
Spanish
suplicar

To make a request in a humble manner; to call upon in supplication.

Related terms
rogar
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Examples for "pray"
Examples for "pray"
1
I pray they now realise that violence adds no value to society.
The Irish Times
2
He asked those present to pray for the victims and their families.
The Guardian
3
I want my family to pray for me, AFP news agency reports.
Radio NZ
4
Men used to pray there in Latin; today they pray in French.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
5
So, let us stand by it; pray for it; fight for it.
Marse Henry (Volume 1) / An Autobiography
1
I implore you, Mr President, to imagine being an ordinary South African.
The South African
2
I implore you to be careful and not to endanger your future.
The Lives of Christopher Chant
3
Guard them jealously; in nothing, I implore you, act without their sanction.
Hellenica
4
No ceremony, I implore you; let us go quickly into the house.
Amphitryon
5
We should implore the North to relieve us of them, in part.
The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
1
During this part of the ceremony, the attendant Brahmins supplicate the Deity.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
2
We will supplicate for you the aid and assistance from on high.
The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1)
3
Shrines he will specially supplicate for the guidance and assistance of the N.S.A.
Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand
4
Turn thou to the Kingdom of Abha and supplicate to the Highest Concourse.
Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
5
On his behalf I supplicate from the Threshold of Oneness pardon and forgiveness.
Japan Will Turn Ablaze!
Portuguese
pedir
Catalan
pregar
Spanish
pedir

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently.

pedir

To plead with someone for help or for a favor; to request urgently or persistently.

Usage of beg in English
1
Now I must beg you to stand aside; she requires immediate attention.
Jane and the madness of lord byron: being a jane austen mystery
2
It is better to beg in the town than in the fields.
Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) / Classic Tales and Old-F...
3
But if the situation is offered, I beg you not accept it.
Caleb's crossing
4
I shall humbly bow before her as spokesman and beg our case.
Return of the Crimson Guard
5
And you didn't beg her to wait, or ask for more money.
Sons of the Oak
6
I didn't know whether to beg, to fight, to reason with him.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
7
See how the Malinovka peasants beg in the streets of the town.
The Precipice
8
Keep in mind that I beg in the name of Saint Francis.
The Queen Pedauque
9
You must beg the channellers to give us more power, else -'
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
10
I think that's a good thing, though you may beg to differ.
Ebony
11
I'm going right now and beg Brun to let me keep you.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
12
Right then, I badly wanted to beg them not to tell me.
Sister Mine
13
You must make that choice, but I beg you: Do it soon.
The Lost Sisterhood
14
Detour it where Let the weather just go on happening we beg.
The new yorker
15
We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more.
The United States Since the Civil War
16
Having held a potentially decisive third-set lead, Jankovic might beg to differ.
The Guardian
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Beg through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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Australia
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