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plead
/plid/
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What does plead mean?
verb
- To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
- To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally.
- To offer by way of excuse.
More meanings (1)
verb
- To discuss by arguments.
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IPA pronunciation
/plid/
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Lucetta covered her eyes with her right hand, as if she could plead no more, holding out her left to Elizabeth-Jane.
When I tried to plead with him to alter his resolution, he became for the first, and only time, violently agitated.
More book examples (3)
In his own cause he can beat a Boston lawyer, but he is dumb when asked to plead the cause of others.
“It’s very important, you know. I shall plead your cause with my sister, because you want—you want to marry her? That’s it, eh?”
Seeing that his doom was certain, and wishing to preserve his family from attainder and their property from confiscation, he refused to plead.