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begging
| Main Entry: |
begging
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous |
| Synonyms: | anxious, craving, imploring, in need |
| Antonyms: | undesirous |
| Main Entry: | beg |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | seek charity |
| Synonyms: | ask alms, benefit, bite*, brace, bum*, burn*, buzz*, cadge, call on, call upon, chisel, clamor for, dime up, ding, freeload, hit up, hustle, knock, live hand to mouth, mendicate, mooch, nick, nickel up, panhandle, pass the hat, put the bite on, put the touch on, score*, scrounge, solicit charity, sponge on, sponge, tap, touch, want |
| Antonyms: | give |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proposal; asking |
| Synonyms: | allurement, appeal, attraction, begging, bid, bidding, call, challenge, compliments, coquetry, date, encouragement, enticement, feeler, ground, hit, incitement, inducement, invite, lure, motive, offer, open door, overture, paper, pass, petition, pressure, proffer, prompting, proposition, provocation, rain check, reason, request, solicitation, suggestion, summons, supplication, temptation, urge |
| Main Entry: | prayer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleading, especially with a deity; |
| Synonyms: | answer adoration, appeal, application, begging, benediction, beseeching, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, litany, orison, petition, plea, pleading, request, request for help, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship |
| Main Entry: | request |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question or petition |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, asking, begging, call, commercial, demand, desire, entreaty, inquiry, invitation, offer, prayer, recourse, requisition, solicitation, suit, supplication |
| Notes: | behest is a stronger term than request |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Main Entry: | pleading |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imploring |
| Synonyms: | begging, beseeching, desirous, supplicating |
| Main Entry: | urging |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persuading |
| Synonyms: | begging, beseeching, coaxing, driving, goad, imploring, insistence, persuasion, pleading |
| Main Entry: | beggary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | begging, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, mendicancy, mendicity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poorness |
| Main Entry: | orison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prayer |
| Synonyms: | answer adoration, appeal, application, begging, benediction, beseeching, collect, communion, devotion, entreaty, grace, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, litany, petition, plea, pleading, request, request for help, rogation, service, suit, supplication, worship |
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