PLEAD
- to ask for earnestly [v PLEADED, PLEADING, PLEADS, PLED] : PLEADINGLY [adv]
- to beg for earnestly [v PLED or PLEADED, PLEADING, PLEADS]
- to entreat earnestly
- to put forward a plea in a law court
- to offer as an excuse
- to argue (a case) in a law court
- to make a plea of