What is another word for beg for?

Pronunciation: [bˈɛɡ fɔː] (IPA)

There are various synonyms for the phrase "beg for", each conveying a slightly different nuance of the act of pleading. To implore suggests a desperate or urgent request, while to beseech emphasizes a tone of earnest or emotional appeal. Plead implies a humbling or subservient request, and to entreat connotes a polite or formal appeal. To supplicate evokes a sense of humility or religious connotation, while to petition refers to a more formal request made to an authority figure or government. Finally, to grovel suggests a humiliating or abject form of begging, while to plead with implies a sense of persistent or emotional pleading.

What are the hypernyms for Beg for?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Beg for

  • I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
    Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
    Satish Kumar
  • Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
    Mike Tyson
  • Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect.
    Jason DeBruin
  • God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
    Georges Bernanos

Related words: beg for forgiveness, beg for a favor, beg for help, beg for mercy

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