beg
Ask on knees
Beg is to ask earnestly or humbly, often from a position of need or desperation: He begged for forgiveness.
To beg for money is to ask strangers for handouts.
Beg can express strong desire without actual pleading: I beg to differ.
To beg the question originally meant to assume the thing you're trying to prove, but now commonly means to raise an obvious question: His absence begs the question of where he went.
A dog begs by sitting up with forepaws raised.
Ask urgently or formally
- imploreUrge with desperation
- beseechPlead urgently with someone
- entreatPlead urgently with someone
- supplicateBeg earnestly and humbly
petition · appeal · pray · solicit · adjure · conjure · urge · importune
Gifts to the destitute
- handoutFree distribution to recipients
- panhandleGeographic arm of territory
- spare changeExtra coins on hand
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
welfare · aid · assistance · relief · benefactor · patronage · sustenance · pittance
Driven by urgent need
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- destituteUtterly without means
- wretchedExtremely unhappy or unfortunate
- forlornSad and abandoned
abject · helpless · hopeless · crisis · plight · predicament · straits · anguish
Abdominal strengthening exercise
- treatSomething pleasantly special
- trickDeliberate deception
- rewardPayment for service
- trainedTaught a skill
obedient · eager · tail wagging · expectant · whimper · whine · drool · biscuit
Unassuming about oneself
- meekHumbly unassertive
- submissiveReadily yielding to control
- deferentialShowing humble submission
- servileExcessively submissive, lacking independence
obsequious · self-effacing · lowly · subservient · prostrate · hat in hand · bow · scrape
Accept as true
- presupposeAssume beforehand as true
- evadeEscape by cunning
- circularForming a closed curve
- fallacyError in reasoning
dodge · sidestep · presume · avoid · logical error
plead
Ask urgently or formally
supplicate · petition · appeal · pray · solicit · adjure · conjure · urge · importune · crave
alms
Gifts to the destitute
- handoutFree distribution to recipients
- panhandleGeographic arm of territory
- spare changeExtra coins on hand
donation · welfare · aid · assistance · relief · benefactor · patronage · sustenance · pittance · poorhouse
desperate
Driven by urgent need
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- destituteUtterly without means
- wretchedExtremely unhappy or unfortunate
forlorn · abject · helpless · hopeless · crisis · plight · predicament · straits · anguish · forsaken
sit up
Abdominal strengthening exercise
trained · obedient · eager · tail wagging · expectant · whimper · whine · drool · biscuit · command
humble
Unassuming about oneself
- meekHumbly unassertive
- submissiveReadily yielding to control
- deferentialShowing humble submission
servile · obsequious · self-effacing · lowly · subservient · prostrate · hat in hand · bow · scrape · fawn
assume
Accept as true
- presupposeAssume beforehand as true
- evadeEscape by cunning
- circularForming a closed curve
fallacy · dodge · sidestep · presume · avoid · logical error
- begin againStart from scratch
- to begin withAt the outset
- beg your pardonRequest for repetition
- I beg your pardonPolite request for repetition
- beg to differPolitely express disagreement
- beg for mercyPlead for compassionate treatment
begin, began, begging, beggar, begged, beguile, begs, begrudge, beggars