beg

About 6.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Belait.
verb To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
verb To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence.
verb To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms.
verb To obviously lack or be in need of something.
A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation
verb In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
verb In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
verb To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.