1.  beg(v = verb.communication) implore, pray - call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
is one way to plead
Derived form noun beggary₁
Sample sentences: They beg him to write the letter; They beg to move

2.  beg(v = verb.communication) solicit, tap - 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"
is one way to bespeak, call for, quest, request
Derived form noun beggary₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something from somebody

3.  beg(v = verb.possession) - ask to obtain free; "beg money and food"
is one way to bespeak, call for, quest, request
Derived form noun beggary₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody PP

4.  beg(v = verb.communication) - dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion"
is one way to circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

   A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey. [1913 Webster]

1.  To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech. [1913 Webster]
"Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather than earnest, asking; as, I beg your pardon; I beg leave to disagree with you." [1913 Webster]
"I do beg your good will in this case." [1913 Webster]
"[Joseph] begged the body of Jesus." [1913 Webster]

2.  To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house. [1913 Webster]
"Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." [1913 Webster]

3.  To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor. [1913 Webster]

4.  To take for granted; to assume without proof. [1913 Webster]

5.  To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for. [1913 Webster]
"Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards." [1913 Webster]

   To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. [1913 Webster]
"I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed." [1913 Webster]

beg, v. (begged, begging)
1 a intr. (usu. foll. by for) ask for (esp. food, money, etc.) (begged for alms). b tr. ask for (food, money, etc.) as a gift. c intr. live by begging.
2 tr. & intr. (usu. foll. by for, or to + infin.) ask earnestly or humbly (begged for forgiveness; begged to be allowed out; please, I beg of you; beg your indulgence for a time).
3 tr. ask formally for (beg leave).
4 intr. (of a dog etc.) sit up with the front paws raised expectantly.
5 tr. take or ask leave (to do something) (I beg to differ; beg to enclose).

Idiom:
beg one's bread live by begging. begging bowl
1 a bowl etc. held out for food or alms.
2 an earnest appeal for help.
beg off
1 decline to take part in or attend.
2 get (a person) excused a penalty etc. beg pardon see PARDON.
beg the question
1 assume the truth of an argument or proposition to be proved, without arguing it.
2 disp. pose the question.
3 colloq. evade a difficulty. go begging (or a-begging) (of a chance or a thing) not be taken; be unwanted.

Etymology:
ME prob. f. OE bedecian f. Gmc: rel. to BID

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VB  request, ask, beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask, beg leave, beg a boon, apply to, call to, put to, call upon, call for, make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition, make application, make a requisition, ask trouble, ask one for, claim, offer up prayers, whistle for, beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore, conjure, adjure, obtest, cry to, kneel to, appeal to, invoke, evoke, impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for, cry aloud, cry for help, fall on one's knees, throw oneself at the feet of, come down on one's marrowbones, beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging, mendicate, mump, cadge, beg one's bread, dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door, bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court, seek, bid for, publish the banns.

beg leave, beg off, beg the question, beg to differ