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  {
    "word": "beg",
    "phonetic": "/b\u025b\u0261/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/b\u025b\u0261/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/b\u025b\u0261/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/beg-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1676702",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The act of begging; an imploring request.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He begged on the street corner from passers-by."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.",
            "synonyms": [
              "supplicate"
            ],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He begged her to go to the prom with him."
          },
          {
            "definition": "In the phrase beg the question: to assume.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [
              "set aside"
            ]
          },
          {
            "definition": "To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "supplicate"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "set aside"
        ]
      }
    ],
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      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
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    ]
  },
  {
    "word": "beg",
    "phonetic": "/b\u025b\u0261/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/b\u025b\u0261/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/b\u025b\u0261/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/beg-us.mp3",
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        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
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      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
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    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beg"
    ]
  },
  {
    "word": "beg",
    "phonetic": "/b\u025b\u0261/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/b\u025b\u0261/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/b\u025b\u0261/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/beg-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1676702",
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          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "That which is begun; a rudiment or element.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "What was the beginning of the dispute?"
          },
          {
            "definition": "The initial portion of some extended thing.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "That house is at the beginning of the street."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "commencing",
          "start",
          "starting",
          "head",
          "start",
          "commencement",
          "origin",
          "source",
          "start",
          "element",
          "embryo",
          "rudiment"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "conclusion",
          "end"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beg",
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beginning"
    ]
  }
]