begged
Asked on knees
Begged is the past tense of beg.
To beg is to ask urgently or humbly, often from a position of need: She begged him to stay.
Begging can be literal—asking for money on the street—or figurative, expressing desperation or strong desire.
I begged for another chance.
To say something begs the question is to raise it naturally, though traditionally the phrase meant assuming what you're trying to prove.
Begged earnestly
- beseechedAsked with desperate urgency
- entreatedPleaded with someone
- supplicatedBegged humbly for something
- pleadedAsked with urgency
petitioned · appealed · prayed · groveled · invoked · adjured · interceded · solicited
Asked with urgency
- criedWept or shouted
- sobbedWept audibly and convulsively
- wailedCried out mournfully
- whimperedCried softly, weakly
stammered · gasped · faltered · whispered · murmured · choked · blubbered · sniveled
Releasing resentment toward offenders
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- leniencyMildness in punishment
- reprievePostponement of punishment
spared · released · freedom · compassion · pity · quarter · indulgence · absolution
Asked for money publicly
- solicitedAsked for purposefully
- scroungedObtained through foraging
- cadgedBegged or borrowed informally
- spongedObtained by imposing
mooched · bummed · hustled · busked · alms · handouts · charity · coins
In desperate haste
- desperatelyWith urgent intensity
- piteouslyIn wretched, sorrowful manner
- hopelesslyWithout any expectation
- direlyIn urgent, serious manner
urgently · imploringly · pathetically · wretchedly · abjectly · miserably · pitifully · fervently
Many times over
- insistentlyWith unyielding pressure
- persistentlyIn an unrelenting manner
- relentlesslyWithout stopping or weakening
- tirelesslyWithout showing weariness
incessantly · doggedly · unrelentingly · ceaselessly · pressingly · demandingly · tenaciously · stubbornly
implored
Begged earnestly
- beseechedAsked with desperate urgency
- entreatedPleaded with someone
- supplicatedBegged humbly for something
pleaded · petitioned · appealed · prayed · groveled · invoked · adjured · interceded · solicited · requested
pleaded
Asked with urgency
whimpered · stammered · gasped · faltered · whispered · murmured · choked · blubbered · sniveled · moaned
forgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- leniencyMildness in punishment
reprieve · spared · released · freedom · compassion · pity · quarter · indulgence · absolution · amnesty
panhandled
Asked for money publicly
- solicitedAsked for purposefully
- scroungedObtained through foraging
- cadgedBegged or borrowed informally
sponged · mooched · bummed · hustled · busked · alms · handouts · charity · coins · donations
frantically
In desperate haste
- desperatelyWith urgent intensity
- piteouslyIn wretched, sorrowful manner
- hopelesslyWithout any expectation
direly · urgently · imploringly · pathetically · wretchedly · abjectly · miserably · pitifully · fervently · earnestly
repeatedly
Many times over
- insistentlyWith unyielding pressure
- persistentlyIn an unrelenting manner
- relentlesslyWithout stopping or weakening
tirelessly · incessantly · doggedly · unrelentingly · ceaselessly · pressingly · demandingly · tenaciously · stubbornly · importunately
- begged offSought release from obligation
- begged to differPolitely voiced disagreement
- begged the questionAssumed what needed proving
- begging to differPolite dissent phrase
- begging the questionAssuming what needs proof
- go beggingRemain unwanted or unused
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