beg
verb
[ bɛɡ ]
• ask someone earnestly or humbly for something.
• "he begged his fellow passengers for help"
Similar:
beseech,
entreat,
implore,
adjure,
plead with,
appeal to,
pray to,
ask,
request,
call on,
petition,
apply to,
importune,
exhort,
enjoin,
press,
obsecrate,
• ask for food or money as charity.
• "a young woman was begging in the street"
Similar:
ask for money,
solicit money,
seek charity,
seek alms,
sponge,
scrounge,
bum,
touch someone for money,
scab,
cadge,
sorn on someone,
mooch,
bludge,
Origin:
Middle English: probably from Old English bedecian, of Germanic origin; related to bid2.
