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say it: beg
beg is a verb meaning "call upon in supplication; entreat". It is pronounced /ˈbɛɡ/ — beg. It carries 4 recorded senses.
“Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce”
“My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities”
dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
“beg the question”
“beg the point in the discussion”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for beg come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.