plead
/pliːd/ verb B2- To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case. · The defendant has decided to plead not guilty.
- To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally. · He pleaded with me not to leave the house.· He was pleading for mercy.
- To offer by way of excuse. · Not wishing to attend the banquet, I pleaded illness.· It is no defence to plead that you were only obeying orders.
- To discuss by arguments.
He/she/it pleads · Past pleaded · Past participle pleaded · -ing form pleading
Verb forms
- Base form
- plead
- He/she/it
- pleads
- Past
- pleaded
- Past participle
- pleaded
- -ing form
- pleading
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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de Villefort, you have promised me—have you not?—always to show mercy to those I plead for.”
“Won’t you go with me?” pleaded the girl, who had begun to look upon the little old woman as her only friend.
A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life.
Upon arriving at home they prepared to kill the Cock, who thus pleaded for his life: “Pray spare me; I am very serviceable to men.
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