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Definition: BEGGED

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. Of Beg.[Websters]
2. To be desired. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To have craved, necessitated, adjured, asked or solicited. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To be pleased. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To have cried, greeted, grieved, invoked or shouted. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To be supplicated. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To have required or needed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
8. To be wretched. [Eve - graph theoretic]
9. To have claimed or inquired. [Eve - graph theoretic]
10. To have bemoaned or bewailed.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Past Tense 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb beg.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(beg)
1. Call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!".[Wordnet].
2. Ask to obtain free; "beg money and food".[Wordnet].
3. Dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion".[Wordnet].
4. Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities".[Wordnet].
5. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.[Websters].
6. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.[Websters].
7. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.[Websters].
8. To take for granted; to assume without proof.[Websters].
9. To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.[Websters].
10. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.[Websters].
11. Base verb from the following inflections: begging, begged, begs, begger, beggers, beggingly and beggedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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"Begged" is a common misspelling or typo for: betted.

Date "Begged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Specialty Definition: BEGGED

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Verb] Entreated; supplicated; asked in charity.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of beg. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Definition: BEGGED

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. Of Beg.[Websters]
2. To be desired. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To have craved, necessitated, adjured, asked or solicited. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To be pleased. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To have cried, greeted, grieved, invoked or shouted. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To be supplicated. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To have required or needed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
8. To be wretched. [Eve - graph theoretic]
9. To have claimed or inquired. [Eve - graph theoretic]
10. To have bemoaned or bewailed.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Past Tense1. Past tense conjugation of the verb beg.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(beg)
1. Call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!".[Wordnet].
2. Ask to obtain free; "beg money and food".[Wordnet].
3. Dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion".[Wordnet].
4. Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities".[Wordnet].
5. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.[Websters].
6. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.[Websters].
7. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.[Websters].
8. To take for granted; to assume without proof.[Websters].
9. To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.[Websters].
10. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.[Websters].
11. Base verb from the following inflections: begging, begged, begs, begger, beggers, beggingly and beggedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "BEGGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Specialty Definition: BEGGED

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Verb] Entreated; supplicated; asked in charity.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary[Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of beg. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: beg

ExpressionsDefinition
Ain't Too Proud to BegAin't Too Proud to Beg is a 1966 hit single by The Temptations for the Motown label. Norman Whitfield became the group's main producer with the release of this single. (references)
Beg for MercyBeg for Mercy is the 2003 debut album from G-Unit. (references)
Beg offAsk for permission to be released from an engagement. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Jani BegJani Beg (? — 1357) was a khan of the Golden Horde in 1342-1357, succeeding his father Uzbeg Khan. (references)
Mirza Aslam BegMirza Aslam Beg was Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan, succeeding General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.General Mirza Aslam Beg was vice chief of army staff in General Zia ul-Haq's military administration, and after Zia's death in a plane crash he was immediately made chief in August 1988. He was born in Azam Garh, British India. Zia's son ,Ejaz ul Haq as well as son of late Director General ISI Akhtar Abdur Rahman, Humanyun Akhtar have blamed Beg in the press for being behind the crash, the cause of which was never officially established. (references)
Sati BegSati Beg (d. sometime after 1345) was a claimant to the throne of the Ilkhanate during the fragmentation of Persia in the mid-14th century. She was the uterine sister of the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id. (references)
Yakub BegYakub Beg (1820 - May 16, 1877) was a Tajik adventurer who became head of the kingdom of Kashgaria. (references)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: beg

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
BEGEnglishBelgradeN/A
BEGGermanBodeneffektgeraeteN/A
Beg.EnglishBeginning(of the month)N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Topics by Level of Interest: beg

Topics sorted by level of InterestLevel (1=low, 600=high)   Topics sorted AlphabeticallyLevel (1=low, 600=high)
Ain't Too Proud to Beg30   ...And Then You'll Beg9
Ulugh Beg22   Aghla Beg6
Mirza Aslam Beg20   Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg13
Beg for Mercy17   Ain't Gon' Beg You2
Saval Beg Stakes13   Ain't Too Proud to Beg30
Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg13   Arif Beg2
Yaqub Beg11   Beg3
Beg to Differ9   Beg Ferati7
...And Then You'll Beg9   Beg for Mercy17
Beg Ferati7   Beg River3
Aghla Beg6   Beg the Question2
Sati Beg6   Beg to Differ9
Daulat Beg Oldi6   Berdi Beg3
Hajji Beg5   Daulat Beg Oldi6
Farrukh Beg5   Farrukh Beg5
Jani Beg5   Geli Eli Beg Waterfall2
Mirza Hameedullah Beg5   Hajji Beg5
Ramazan Beg4   Jani Beg5
Mirza Ghiyas Beg4   Lough Beg3
Muhammad Beg Khan-e Rosebahani4   Manzoor Alam Beg2
Tardi Beg3   Mirza Aslam Beg20
Tini Beg3   Mirza Ghiyas Beg4
Beg3   Mirza Hameedullah Beg5
Berdi Beg3   Muhammad Beg Khan-e Rosebahani4
Nawruz Beg3   Nawruz Beg3
Beg River3   Ramazan Beg4
Lough Beg3   Sati Beg6
Beg the Question2   Saval Beg Stakes13
Manzoor Alam Beg2   Tardi Beg3
Geli Eli Beg Waterfall2   Tini Beg3
Arif Beg2   Ulugh Beg22
Ain't Gon' Beg You2   Yaqub Beg11

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).