beg

1. (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.Examples: "He begged on the street corner from passers-by."intransitive

2. (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.Examples: "I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence."; "He begged her to go to the prom with him."; "you do beg your good will in this case."Synonyms: supplicatetransitive

3. (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.Examples: "The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms."transitive

4. (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.Examples: "A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation"; "The colors in this cell are as dull as its architects must have been. An endless expanse of drab-green textured walls, contrasting with the gray concrete floor. It begs redecoration."intransitivetransitive

5. (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.transitive

6. (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).Antonyms: set asideproscribedtransitive