mendicare un tozzo di pane

1. v/t beg (for)

aiuto, lavoro et cetera beg for, plead for

2. v/i beg

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mendicare v. intr. to beg: negli ultimi anni della sua vita fu costretto a mendicare, in the last years of his life he was reduced to begging; preferirei morire che mendicare, I would die rather than beg

◆ v.tr. to beg; to beg for (sthg.) (anche fig.); mendicare il cibo, to beg for food; mendicare un tozzo di pane, to beg for a crust of bread; mendicare un aiuto, un lavoro, una promozione, to beg for help, for a job, for a promotion; mendicare complimenti, lodi, to fish for compliments, for praise; mendicare un favore da qlcu., to beg (o to beseech) a favour of s.o.; mendicare scuse, to try to find excuses (o to look for excuses).

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1. vt

(anche), fig to beg for

2. vi

(anche), fig to beg

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verbo transitivo to beg for [aiuti, fondi]

verbo intransitivo (aus. avere) to beg

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mendicare

/mendi'kare/ [1]

I verbo transitivo

 to beg for [aiuti, fondi]

II verbo intransitivo

 (aus. avere) to beg.

1) просить ( в качестве подаяния)

2) униженно просить, вымаливать

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общ. выпрашивать, выклянчивать, вымаливать, нищенствовать, попрошайничать, просить милостыню

1) (elemosinare) просить милостыню, попрошайничать, нищенствовать, стоять с протянутой рукой

2) (chiedere umiliandosi) (униженно) просить, выпрашивать, клянчить, умолять