beg · verb
Meanings and examples
To ask someone very strongly or urgently for something.
She begged her manager to give the team one more week.
We begged them not to make a decision before hearing our explanation.
He was begging for another opportunity to prove that he could do the job.
The children begged to stay until the final performance had finished.
Forms
- beg base form
- begs third-person singular present
- begged past tense; past participle
- begging present participle