Usually means: Pleaded earnestly for something desired.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. begged: Merriam-Webster
  2. begged: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. begged: Collins English Dictionary
  4. begged: Vocabulary.com
  5. Begged, begged: Wordnik
  6. begged: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. begged: Wiktionary
  8. Begged, begged: Dictionary.com
  9. begged: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Begged: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Begged: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Begged: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. begged: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. begged: FreeDictionary.org
  15. begged: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. begged: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. begged: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. begged: Encyclopedia

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  1. begged: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (beg)

verb:  (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
verb:  (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
verb:  (transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To obviously lack or be in need of something.
verb:  (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
verb:  (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
verb:  (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
noun:  The act of begging; an imploring request.
noun:  A surname from Hindi.
noun:  (history) Alternative form of bey [(historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions]
noun:  (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning. [(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.]
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