Usually means: Request something earnestly or formally.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. plead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plead: Merriam-Webster
  3. plead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plead: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plead: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plead, plead: Wordnik
  8. plead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. plead: Wiktionary
  10. plead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plead: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. plead: Dictionary.com
  14. plead: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. plead: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Plead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Plead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. plead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. plead: Rhymezone
  20. plead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. plead: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. plead: FreeDictionary.org
  23. plead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. plead: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. plead: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. plead: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. plead: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. plead: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. plead: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLEAD: Acronym Finder
  2. plead: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plead: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pleadable as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plead)

▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, copulative) To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To offer by way of excuse.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To discuss by arguments.

Similar:
imploring, beseeching, appealing, importunate, replead, allege, pray in aid, make a case for, persuade, argue, more...

Opposite:
deny, admit, confess

Types:
guilty, not guilty, no contest, nolo contendere, more...

Phrases:
plead for, plead guilty, plead with, plead ignorance, plead the fifth, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     garnet,     burgundy, more...


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Similar:
imploring, beseeching, appealing, importunate, replead, allege, pray in aid, make a case for, persuade, argue, more...

Opposite:
deny, admit, confess

Types:
guilty, not guilty, no contest, nolo contendere, more...

Phrases:
plead for, plead guilty, plead with, plead ignorance, plead the fifth, plead the 5th, take plead the fifth, plead the belly, to begin something with a plead, plead for job, plead my case, to plead, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     garnet,     burgundy, more...



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