Begging - English meaning

verb

Urge or request (someone) solemnly or earnestly to do something.

Usage examples:

I adjure you to tell me the truth

verb

Say something in order to obtain an answer or some information.

Usage examples:

I asked her what she meant

noun

A demand or situation that requires a specified degree of effort or commitment.

Usage examples:

It is a big ask for him to go and play 90 minutes

Make a request or demand for something to somebody

verb

Ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat.

Usage examples:

They beseeched him to stay

verb

To ask for something in a way that shows you need it very much

Usage examples:

Stay a little longer, i beseech you!

verb

Shirk responsibility and live off the efforts of others.

Usage examples:

They were sick of bludging on the public

noun

An easy job or assignment.

Usage examples:

That night shift must be the biggest bludge on earth

verb

To take advantage of the efforts of other people rather than working hard or taking responsibility for something yourself

Usage examples:

Some people believe that unions encourage workers to bludge and be less productive., he says if peo…

noun

A vagrant.

Usage examples:

Bums had been known to wander up to their door and ask for a sandwich

verb

Get by asking or begging.

Usage examples:

They tried to bum money off us

adjective

Of poor quality; bad or wrong.

Usage examples:

Not one bum note was played

verb

Ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled).

Usage examples:

He cadged fivers off old school friends

noun

A padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field.

Usage examples:

He was not paid except for tips he could get from spectators by telling hunting stories about some …

verb

To (try to) get something from someone else without paying for it

Usage examples:

He's always cadging free meals and free trips from/off his clients., can i cadge a lift home?

verb

Instruct or urge (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

The code enjoined members to trade fairly

verb

Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something

verb

To legally forbid or stop something by order of a court

Usage examples:

The prosecutor’s office hopes the court will enjoin the city from enforcing the law., lawyers are e…

verb

Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.

Usage examples:

His friends entreated him not to go

verb

To try very hard to persuade someone to do something

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] we would spend every meal time entreating the child to eat her vegetables.

verb

Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

I exhorted her to be a good child

verb

To strongly encourage or persuade someone to do something

Usage examples:

She exhorted all of us to do our very best.

verb

Beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.

Usage examples:

He implored her to change her mind

verb

To ask someone in a determined, sincere, and sometimes emotional way to do or not to do something, or to ask for something in this way

Usage examples:

She implored him not to leave her.

verb

Harass (someone) persistently for or to do something.

Usage examples:

Reporters importuned him with pointed questions

verb

Ask for or obtain (something) without paying for it.

Usage examples:

A bunch of your friends will show up, mooching food

noun

Loiter in a bored or listless manner.

Usage examples:

He just mooched about his bedsit

verb

To walk or do things slowly and without much purpose

Usage examples:

Disapproving stop mooching (about/around) in your room and do something useful!, you're old enough …

verb

To entreat (a person) earnestly; to implore, beseech, supplicate; to beg (a thing).

noun

A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority in respect of a particular cause.

Usage examples:

She was asked to sign a petition against plans to build on the local playing fields

verb

Present a petition to (an authority) in respect of a particular cause.

Usage examples:

The organization is petitioning the eu for a moratorium on the patent

noun

A document signed by a large number of people requesting some action from the government or another authority, or law a formal letter to a court of law requesting a particular legal action

Usage examples:

More than 2000 people signed a petition to protect a wildlife area from development., law she’s fil…

verb

Move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force.

Usage examples:

He pressed his face to the glass

noun

A device for applying pressure to something in order to flatten or shape it or to extract juice or oil.

Usage examples:

A flower press

noun

A forcible enlistment of men, especially for the navy.

Usage examples:

Any english-speaking, able-bodied, man on leave in a port might find himself swept up in the press.

noun

An act of asking politely or formally for something.

Usage examples:

A request for information

verb

Politely or formally ask for.

Usage examples:

He received the information he had requested

noun

An act of asking for something, or the thing asked for

Usage examples:

[ c ] the library gets a lot of requests for books about new babies., [ u ] an application will be …

noun

A dry, rough protective crust that forms over a cut or wound during healing.

Usage examples:

As this mesh dries, it hardens and forms a scab to protect the wound as it heals.

verb

Become encrusted or covered with a scab or scabs.

Usage examples:

I had a cut on my arm that had scabbed over

verb

Seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth.

Usage examples:

He had managed to scrounge a free meal

noun

An act of scrounging.

Usage examples:

We went for a scrounge

verb

To get something by asking for it instead of buying it or working for it, or to gather something you want or need from what is available

Usage examples:

[ t ] baxter scrounged furniture and equipment from local businesses., [ i ] a black cat scrounged …

noun

A primitive sedentary aquatic invertebrate with a soft porous body that is typically supported by a framework of fibres or calcareous or glassy spicules. sponges draw in a current of water to extract nutrients and oxygen.

Usage examples:

Other images are just as mystifying the spine of a sea urchin, sharks' teeth, sponges and ascidians…

verb

Wipe or clean with a wet sponge or cloth.

Usage examples:

She sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever

noun

Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies