| beg | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. beg, implore, pray | call upon in supplication; entreat.; "I beg you to stop!" |
| ~ crave | plead or ask for earnestly. |
| ~ supplicate | ask humbly (for something).; "He supplicated the King for clemency" |
| ~ plead | appeal or request earnestly.; "I pleaded with him to stop" |
| ~ importune, insist | beg persistently and urgently.; "I importune you to help them" |
| v. (communication) | 2. beg, solicit, tap | make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently.; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities" |
| ~ call for, request, bespeak, quest | express the need or desire for; ask for.; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" |
| ~ quest | seek alms, as for religious purposes. |
| ~ canvas, canvass | solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign. |
| ~ buttonhole, lobby | detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors. |
| v. (possession) | 3. beg | ask to obtain free.; "beg money and food" |
| ~ call for, request, bespeak, quest | express the need or desire for; ask for.; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" |
| ~ schnorr, shnorr, cadge, scrounge | obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling.; "he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends" |
| ~ panhandle | beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money. |
| v. (communication) | 4. beg | dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted.; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion" |
| ~ evade, hedge, sidestep, skirt, fudge, parry, circumvent, dodge, elude, duck, put off | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues).; "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" |
| beseech | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, entreat, press | ask for or request earnestly.; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons" |
| ~ plead | appeal or request earnestly.; "I pleaded with him to stop" |
| pitiful | | |
| adj. | 1. pathetic, pitiable, pitiful | inspiring mixed contempt and pity.; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" |
| ~ contemptible | deserving of contempt or scorn. |
| adj. | 2. deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry | bad; unfortunate.; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| adj. | 3. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched | deserving or inciting pity.; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" |
| ~ unfortunate | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
| stagnate | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. stagnate | stand still.; "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (stative) | 2. stagnate | cause to stagnate.; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ stagnate | cease to flow; stand without moving.; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries" |
| v. (stative) | 3. stagnate | cease to flow; stand without moving.; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ stagnate | cause to stagnate.; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters" |
| v. (social) | 4. idle, laze, slug, stagnate | be idle; exist in a changeless situation.; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" |
| ~ moon around, moon on, moon | be idle in a listless or dreamy way. |
| ~ ride the bench, warm the bench | be out of the game.; "Miller was riding the bench in Saturday's game" |
| ~ moon, daydream | have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" |
| ~ arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time, bum, loll | be lazy or idle.; "Her son is just bumming around all day" |
| ~ lie about, lie around | hang around idly.; "She did all the work while he lay around" |
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