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ask alms

VERB

beg

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bite call on hustle scrounge

STRONG

benefit brace bum burn buzz cadge chisel freeload knock mooch nick panhandle score sponge tap touch want

WEAK

call upon clamor for dime up hit up live hand to mouth mendicate nickel up pass the hat put the bite on put the touch on solicit charity sponge on

Antonyms

WEAK

give

VERB

panhandle

Synonyms

STRONG

bum cadge freeload hustle mooch scrounge sponge

WEAK

hit up hold out one's hand live hand to mouth pass the hat solicit charity

Example Sentences

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A bat-eared young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service.

From Time Magazine Archive

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Meanwhile he and the other refugees had to ask alms or starve.

From Historic Boyhoods by Holland, Rupert Sargent

A leper came to Brigit to ask alms.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

This girl went out at noon, as was her custom, to stand by the gate and ask alms.

From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth

ask alms

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