English words for 'The state or quality of being begging.'
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noun
verb
- (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
- (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
- (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
- (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
- (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
- (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
- call upon in supplication; entreat
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- ask to obtain free
- dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- anything indispensable
- the condition of being essential or indispensable
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adv
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- Condition of being sought after.
- Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
- (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
- A formal message requesting something.
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- the verbal act of requesting
verb
verb
- To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
- (specifically, religion) To make a humble request to (a deity or other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
- To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
- (specifically, Oxford University) Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to formally request that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
- To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
- ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
- make a humble, earnest petition
- ask humbly (for something)
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive, US) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a homeless or vagrant person.
- (transitive, figuratively, uncommon) To elicit; to attempt to obtain or provoke a certain response or answer.
- beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money
noun
- (aviation) The handle that activates an ejector seat.
- (cartography, US) An area within a nation or subnational division that appears to stick out or project when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient.
- The handle of a pan.
- the handle of a pan
- a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area
verb
- (Geordie) To beg.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
- (US, British, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
- To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling
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noun
adj
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
- (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
- (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
- (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
- (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
- (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
- call upon in supplication; entreat
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- ask to obtain free
- dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
noun
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- anything indispensable
- the condition of being essential or indispensable
noun
- Condition of being sought after.
- Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
- (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
- A formal message requesting something.
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- the verbal act of requesting
verb
noun
verb
- To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
- (specifically, religion) To make a humble request to (a deity or other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
- To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
- (specifically, Oxford University) Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to formally request that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
- To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
- ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
- make a humble, earnest petition
- ask humbly (for something)
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive, US) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a homeless or vagrant person.
- (transitive, figuratively, uncommon) To elicit; to attempt to obtain or provoke a certain response or answer.
- beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money
noun
- (aviation) The handle that activates an ejector seat.
- (cartography, US) An area within a nation or subnational division that appears to stick out or project when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient.
- The handle of a pan.
- the handle of a pan
- a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area
verb
- (Geordie) To beg.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
- (US, British, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
- To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling