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Verb plead has 4 senses
  1. plead - appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop"
    --1 is one way to     appeal, invoke
    Sample sentence:
    They plead to move
  2. plead - offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity"
    --2 is one way to     apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s Adjective
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
  3. plead - enter a plea, as in courts of law; "She pleaded not guilty"
    --3 is one way to     declare
    Derived form: noun pleading1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s Adjective
  4. plead - make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
    --4 is one way to     allege, aver, say
    Derived forms: noun pleader1, noun pleading1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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