Definitions for appeal

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appeal ap·peal

Spelling: [uh-peel]

IPA: /əˈpil/

Appeal is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in appeal (aaelpp).

Definitions for appeal

noun

1. an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.
2. a request or reference to some person or authority for a decision, corroboration, judgment, etc.
3. Law. an application or proceeding for review by a higher tribunal. (in a legislative body or assembly) a formal question as to the correctness of a ruling by a presiding officer. Obsolete. a formal charge or accusation.
4. the power or ability to attract, interest, amuse, or stimulate the mind or emotions:
5. Obsolete. a summons or challenge.

Idioms

1. appeal to the country, British. country (def 16).

verb (used with object)

1. Law. to apply for review of (a case) to a higher tribunal. Obsolete. to charge with a crime before a tribunal.

verb (used without object)

1. to ask for aid, support, mercy, sympathy, or the like; make an earnest entreaty:
2. Law. to apply for review of a case or particular issue to a higher tribunal.
3. to have need of or ask for proof, a decision, corroboration, etc.
4. to be especially attractive, pleasing, interesting, or enjoyable:

Origin of appeal

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English a(p)pelen Anglo-French, Old French a(p)peler Latin appellāre to speak to, address, equivalent to ap- ap-¹ + -pellāre, iterativ

Examples for appeal

I have no friend but you to whom I can appeal, to whom I dare complain.

Teague replied: “I have to allow an operator or plugger a way to appeal when he believes our requirements are unreasonable.”

If he said or did anything, there was no appeal; that was settled, let us pass to something else.

Adnan has an appeal hearing for post-conviction relief set for January.

“Basically, I was contacted and asked if an appeal could be opened on my behalf,” she told me from her home in Providence.

If it were, to whom could I appeal with effect against a husband?

In that moment he needed desperately something to which he could appeal for comfort.

This approach would greatly limit his appeal beyond the Northeast and the west coast.

Should it be ever so unhappily, will it be prudence to complain or appeal?

In January, an appeal hearing will determine whether he qualifies for post-conviction relief.