Definitions for plead

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plead plead

Spelling: [pleed]

IPA: /plid/

Plead is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in plead (adelp).

Definitions for plead

verb (used with object)

1. to allege or urge in defense, justification, or excuse:
2. Law. to maintain (a cause) by argument before a court. to allege or set forth (something) formally in an action at law. to allege or cite in legal defense:

verb (used without object)

1. to appeal or entreat earnestly:
2. to use arguments or persuasions, as with a person, for or against something:
3. to afford an argument or appeal:
4. Law. to make any allegation or plea in an action at law. to put forward an answer on the part of a defendant to a legal declaration or charge. to address a court as an advocate. Obsolete. to prosecute a suit or action at law.

Origin of plead

1200-50; Middle English plaiden Old French plaid(i)er to go to law, plead early Medieval Latin placitāre to litigate, derivative of Latin placitum opinion. See plea

Examples for plead

On Friday, many of the minors came back to plead to the residents that this was their only home.

It is not for Aspasia, the gifted daughter of Axiochus, that I plead.

They tried to make her plead 'Not guilty,' but she wouldn't lie about it, she said.

Christian conservative Sen. Larry Craig plead guilty for soliciting sex in the Minneapolis airport bathroom in 2007.

So expect not any advocateship from me: I will not plead for you; and that's enough.

The news that Grimm was set to plead guilty sent shockwaves through the leadership of the Republican Party on Staten Island.

The camera passes to each hostage in turn to allow them to plead with the Lebanese government to let them live.

Will their successors falter and plead organic impotency in the nation?

But what then can I plead for a palliation to myself of my mother's sufferings on my account?

He did not plead guilty, and has regularly filed petitions in an effort to prove his innocence.