- plead
- v1. appeal, entreat, beg, beseech; supplicate, ask, apply for; seek, request, call for; appeal to, implore, Brit. Inf. prig; pray, petition, solicit, supplicate, obtest; adjure, conjure, Rare. sue; press, importune, demand.2. argue against, reason with, debate, enjoin; counsel, exhort, urge, recommend, try to influence; suggest, persuade, push, Inf. lean on, coerce, use pressure.3. argue, use as an excuse, put forward, present; assert, declare, proclaim, allege, aver, attest, asseverate; maintain, hold, profess, avow, affirm, acknowledge, admit, own.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.