to beg

Examples

• All

• And please, I beg of you, listen to the scientists.

  GQ

• Please, I beg you.

  Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

• And I, I, I, I beg you, I beg you.

• In fact, I beg you to speak to someone.

• You know, I'm not too proud to beg for support.

• And he used to beg us to end his misery after dinner.

• I remember I begged to keep my job.

• I beg you.

  The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

• O Sultan, I beg you, do not sacrifice me for this man's madness.

  Francis of Assisi (1961)

• Please, I beg you to help me find my lost dog.

Synonyms

A

to ask

vsto beg

∞ 1.0

To request that someone do something or meet a requirement

is more urgent and emotional than neutral or polite requests

A

to ask for

vsto beg

∞ 1.0

To tell someone you want or need something

is more urgent and pleading than a simple general request

A

to ask for help

vsto beg

250 1.0

To tell someone you need support with a task or problem

is more urgent and pleading in tone than a standard help request

S

to seek

vsto beg

227 1.0

Ask someone for information, advice, or help

is about urgent pleading to someone rather than general attempts to obtain

P

to pray

vsto beg

• Archaic

167 1.6

To beg someone urgently and humbly for something

is more secular and urgent rather than humble or devotional

P

to plead

vsto beg

143 3.9

Ask someone urgently and emotionally for something

is similar but usually more urgent and needy in tone

S

to solicit

vsto beg

• Formal

72 6.8

To ask people for something, often in a formal or persistent way

is more urgent and personal, not primarily formal or businesslike

S

to seek help

vsto beg

62 2.0

Ask someone for support when you face a problem

is more about immediate pleading for aid rather than general seeking

I

to implore

vsto beg

• Formal

46 5.3

To ask someone very seriously to do or not do something

is earnest but less driven by desperation

B

to beseech

vsto beg

• Formal

39 8.2

To ask someone earnestly for something

is less intense and more ordinary in emotional tone

B

to bid

vsto beg

• Archaic

28 3.5

To tell someone politely or formally to do something

is more emotional and urgent rather than formal instruction

E

to entreat

vsto beg

• Formal

12 8.1

Ask someone in a serious, emotional way to do something

is more informal and used in everyday speech

S

to supplicate

vsto beg

• Formal

2 9.6

To beg someone, often in prayer, for help or favor

is more everyday and urgent, not mainly humble or formal

I

to intreat

vsto beg

• Archaic

1 9.9

To ask someone very strongly for something

is the modern, everyday version rather than the archaic

M

to mump

vsto beg

• Archaic

9.9

To beg for food or money

is more general and not limited to panhandling or dialectal use

T

to thig

vsto beg

• Archaic

9.9

To ask people for things like food or money in a strong, repeated way

is more general and modern, not chiefly dialectal or archaic

Idioms

B

to beg for one's life

• NSFW

7.4

Ask someone very strongly not to kill or hurt you

Phrasal Verbs

B

to beg off

• Informal

6 7.0

To ask to be excused from an activity by giving a reason

B

to beg on one's knees

• Informal

7.0

Ask someone for help or forgiveness while kneeling and looking very desperate

Compounds

B

beg button

• Informal

9.1

An action that asks people for help or sympathy

How Earnest

to implore

• Formal

46 5.3

to beg

∞ 1.0

to plead

143 3.9

to request

808 1.0

to ask

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology