Definition of plead

"plead" in the verb sense

1. plead

appeal or request earnestly

"I pleaded with him to stop"

2. plead

offer as an excuse or plea

"She was pleading insanity"

3. plead

enter a plea, as in courts of law

"She pleaded not guilty"

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

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Quotations for plead

You plead after sentence given. [ Proverb ]

Vice must never plead prescription. [ Proverb ]

Be wise to-day! 'tis madness to defer;
Next day, the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time. [ Edward Young ]

Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes. [ Southern ]

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. [ Young ]

Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell. [ Burton ]

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. [ Selden ]

Plead or Pleaded? He plead not guilty or He pleaded not guilty. Pleaded, not plead, constitutes the imperfect tense and the perfect participle of the verb to plead. Hence, in the example quoted the correct word is pleaded. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. [ Colton ]

plead in Scrabble®

The word plead is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters plead:

PLEAD
(33)
PEDAL
(33)
PALED
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word plead

PLEAD
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In plead

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plead in Words With Friends™

The word plead is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters plead:

PEDAL
(54)
PALED
(54)
PLEAD
(54)
 

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In plead

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Word Growth involving plead

Shorter words in plead

ad lead

lea lead

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Longer words containing plead

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