Synonyms for Plead:

• n.

  •
  • allow,
  • bring before,
  • bring,
  • ask,
  • call,
  • arraign,
  • appear.
  •
  • encourage,
  • spur,
  • urge on,
  • prod,
  • convince,
  • dissuade,
  • present,
  • prevail on,
  • persuade,
  • motivate.
  •
  • prosecute,
  • vouch,
  • avouch,
  • cross examine,
  • examine,
  • debate,
  • advocate,
  • respond,
  • account for.
  •
  • conjure,
  • be,
  • CH.
  •expostulate (noun)
  • expostulate.

• v.

  •allege (verb)
  • pro fess,
  • pre-sent,
  • de-posed,
  • pro fesses,
  • re-cited,
  • de-clares,
  • re-counted,
  • re counts,
  • de-clare,
  • re-citing,
  • re-counting,
  • re cited,
  • de pose,
  • de clare,
  • pro-fesses,
  • putting forward,
  • re-counts,
  • de posed,
  • re counted,
  • de-posing,
  • re counting,
  • pre-sents,
  • de-pose,
  • asservating,
  • re-cite,
  • asservated,
  • re cites,
  • re citing,
  • re cite,
  • asservates,
  • pre sent,
  • pre sents,
  • re-cites,
  • de clares,
  • de posing,
  • pro-fess.
  •answer (verb)
  • ex plain,
  • backing at you,
  • talks back,
  • are touch,
  • re-joins,
  • gat back to,
  • gave a snappy comeback,
  • re-solved,
  • re marking,
  • shooting back,
  • giving snappy comeback,
  • dis prove,
  • gives a snappy comeback,
  • re-marking,
  • re solves,
  • re-solves,
  • fields question,
  • dis-proving,
  • comebacked,
  • counter claims,
  • field question,
  • re-butting,
  • was touch,
  • feedbacking,
  • counter-claiming,
  • back you,
  • re-marks,
  • backed you,
  • being touch,
  • is touch,
  • backed at you,
  • re mark,
  • fielded the question,
  • backs at you,
  • wast in touch,
  • re marked,
  • counter claim,
  • art touch,
  • re joins,
  • ex-plain,
  • be touch,
  • dis-proves,
  • re turns,
  • shoots back,
  • art in touch,
  • fields the question,
  • re join,
  • Re-turn,
  • fielding question,
  • gave snappy comeback,
  • counter claiming,
  • fielding the question,
  • getting back to,
  • back talking,
  • give snappy comeback,
  • wert touch,
  • is in touch,
  • gets back to,
  • re-solve,
  • answers back,
  • dis proved,
  • wert in touch,
  • re-marked,
  • backing you,
  • fielded question,
  • ex plains,
  • re joined,
  • re solve,
  • re-tort,
  • re turning,
  • talked back,
  • were touch,
  • dis proving,
  • ex-plains,
  • re-joining,
  • counter claimed,
  • dis proves,
  • gives snappy comeback,
  • got back to,
  • was in touch,
  • re butted,
  • are in touch,
  • comebacking,
  • re-torts,
  • re-butted,
  • feedbacked,
  • counter-claims,
  • re turn,
  • re marks,
  • re-turns,
  • re-turned,
  • back talked,
  • were in touch,
  • re butting,
  • dis-proved,
  • wast touch,
  • re-solving,
  • answering back,
  • ex plaining,
  • re-join,
  • ex plained,
  • re joining,
  • ex-plained,
  • shot back,
  • re-joined,
  • giving a snappy comeback,
  • counter-claimed,
  • dis-prove,
  • re tort,
  • re solving,
  • ex-plaining,
  • am touch,
  • re torts,
  • re-turning,
  • being in touch,
  • gotten back to,
  • backs you.
  •appeal (verb)
  • beg,
  • entreat,
  • address,
  • petition,
  • invite,
  • supplicate,
  • solicit,
  • appeal,
  • greet,
  • accost,
  • entice,
  • apply.
  •approach (verb)
  • gives play,
  • gave tumble,
  • makes overture,
  • giving a play,
  • making up to,
  • made advance,
  • gave a tumble,
  • feels out,
  • made up to,
  • takes aside,
  • give tumble,
  • feeling one out,
  • giving tumble,
  • gives a play,
  • makes to,
  • giving play,
  • gives tumble,
  • making to,
  • taking aside,
  • speaks to,
  • making overture,
  • talks to,
  • made to,
  • felt one out,
  • talked to,
  • sounds out,
  • makes advance,
  • appeals to,
  • feels one out,
  • gave play,
  • make to,
  • makes up to,
  • spake to,
  • appealing to,
  • took aside,
  • giving a tumble,
  • felt out,
  • gave a play,
  • applying to,
  • making advance,
  • applies to,
  • gives a tumble,
  • made overture.
  •argue (verb)
  • dis play,
  • prevails upon,
  • dis played,
  • de notes,
  • dis-plays,
  • dis-played,
  • dis-play,
  • dis playing,
  • de-noting,
  • de-note,
  • dis plays,
  • de-notes,
  • de note,
  • talks in to,
  • de noted,
  • talk in to,
  • talking into,
  • talks into,
  • talked into,
  • de-noted,
  • dis-playing,
  • talking in to,
  • talked in to,
  • de noting,
  • prevail up on.
  •ask (verb)
  • filed for,
  • re questing,
  • re quests,
  • re-quests,
  • pro mote,
  • re quested,
  • pro-mote,
  • re-quested,
  • pro-motes,
  • contending for,
  • filing for,
  • contends for,
  • pro-moting,
  • contended for,
  • pro moting,
  • re-questing,
  • files for,
  • re quest,
  • pro motes,
  • re-quest.
  •beg (verb)
  • be sieges,
  • Impetrating,
  • obtests,
  • be-sieged,
  • de siring,
  • be-siege,
  • impetrates,
  • be-sieging,
  • Obtested,
  • de sires,
  • de sire,
  • de sired,
  • be sieging,
  • obsecrates,
  • Obsecrated,
  • Obsecrating,
  • de-sires,
  • Obtesting,
  • be-sieges,
  • be sieged,
  • de-siring,
  • de-sire,
  • calls to,
  • calling to,
  • de-sired,
  • be siege,
  • Impetrated.
  •beg, request (verb)
  • entreaty,
  • crawl,
  • cop a plea,
  • square things,
  • make up for.
  •beseech (verb)
  • be sought,
  • be-sought.
  •communication (verb)
  • plead.
  •defend (verb)
  • de-fends,
  • de-fended,
  • bare one out,
  • de-fend,
  • be-friended,
  • up holds,
  • spoke up for,
  • be-friend,
  • coming defense of,
  • spake for,
  • go bat for,
  • puts good word,
  • re commend,
  • proved case,
  • proved a case,
  • de fending,
  • sticked for,
  • said defense,
  • putting in good word,
  • be-friending,
  • covers for,
  • says defense,
  • de fended,
  • up-holds,
  • be friending,
  • puts in good word,
  • spake up for,
  • say defense,
  • up held,
  • bore one out,
  • up-held,
  • sticking up for,
  • up-hold,
  • re commended,
  • stands up for,
  • riding shotgun for,
  • said in defense,
  • proving a case,
  • sticks up for,
  • stuck up for,
  • speaking up for,
  • put good word,
  • putting good word,
  • put in good word,
  • prove case,
  • put a good word,
  • thumping for,
  • de fend,
  • apologized for,
  • putting in a good word,
  • apologizing for,
  • up-holding,
  • bears one out,
  • re commending,
  • sticking for,
  • be friend,
  • standing up for,
  • come defense of,
  • up holding,
  • be-friends,
  • came to defense of,
  • came defense of,
  • puts a good word,
  • re-commend,
  • puts in a good word,
  • comes defense of,
  • de-fending,
  • proving case,
  • beared one out,
  • covering for,
  • up hold,
  • comes to defense of,
  • re commends,
  • apologizes for,
  • spoke for,
  • proves case,
  • sticked up for,
  • rode shotgun for,
  • thumps for,
  • speaks for,
  • re-commends,
  • thumped for,
  • saying in defense,
  • covered for,
  • rid shotgun for,
  • re-commending,
  • says in defense,
  • putting a good word,
  • coming to defense of,
  • be friended,
  • re-commended,
  • rides shotgun for,
  • speaks up for,
  • de fends,
  • sticks for,
  • proves a case,
  • saying defense,
  • stands by,
  • bearing one out,
  • stuck for.
  •exhort (verb)
  • in cite,
  • pre aching,
  • pre-ached,
  • pre ached,
  • co unselling,
  • co-unselling,
  • in-cited,
  • pre-aching,
  • in-cite,
  • in cites.
  •implore (verb)
  • go bended knee,
  • went on bended knee,
  • going on bended knee,
  • going bended knee,
  • went bended knee,
  • goes on bended knee,
  • goes bended knee.
  •importune (verb)
  • be sets,
  • wrought on,
  • be-setting,
  • be-sets,
  • works on,
  • be-set,
  • be setting.
  •intercede (verb)
  • inter mediating,
  • inter posed,
  • inter-ceding,
  • inter-posed,
  • inter-ceded,
  • inter mediated,
  • inter-cede,
  • inter ceding,
  • monkeying with,
  • inter cede,
  • inter-mediated,
  • mixt in,
  • inter-mediating,
  • inter-mediate,
  • monkeys with,
  • inter ceded,
  • inter-cedes,
  • inter posing,
  • mixing in,
  • inter cedes,
  • inter-posing,
  • mixes in,
  • inter mediate,
  • inter-pose,
  • inter-mediates,
  • monkeyed with,
  • inter mediates,
  • inter pose.
  •invoke (verb)
  • sending for,
  • calls forth,
  • sends for.
  •justify (verb)
  • makes good,
  • made allowances,
  • doeth justice to,
  • making allowances,
  • spoke favor,
  • does justice to,
  • was answerable for,
  • speaks in favor,
  • didst justice to,
  • showed cause,
  • wast answerable for,
  • spake in favor,
  • being answerable for,
  • argues for,
  • shows cause,
  • spake favor,
  • were answerable for,
  • cop plea,
  • speaking in favor,
  • doing justice to,
  • speaks favor,
  • makes allowances,
  • doest justice to,
  • argued for,
  • dost justice to,
  • am answerable for,
  • speak favor,
  • speaking favor,
  • wert answerable for,
  • are answerable for,
  • doth justice to,
  • is answerable for,
  • spoke in favor,
  • art answerable for,
  • did justice to,
  • showing cause.
  •plead (verb)
  • excuse.
  •pleading (verb)
  • Begging.
  •present a defense (verb)
  • give evidence,
  • plea bargain,
  • use as excuse,
  • answer charges.
  •press (verb)
  • de-presses,
  • de presses,
  • de-pressing,
  • de-pressed,
  • insisted on,
  • dis-quieting,
  • leant on,
  • leans on,
  • dis-quiet,
  • dis quieted,
  • insists on,
  • de pressing,
  • dis-quiets,
  • de press,
  • dis-quieted,
  • insisting on,
  • dis quieting,
  • leaned on,
  • de pressed,
  • de-press,
  • dis quiets,
  • dis quiet.
  •reply, react (verb)
  • answer.
  •request (verb)
  • probe,
  • question,
  • demand,
  • summon,
  • seek,
  • wish,
  • want,
  • desire,
  • requisition,
  • bid,
  • query,
  • inquire.
  •speak (verb)
  • de-claim,
  • dis coursed,
  • de-claimed,
  • de claiming,
  • de-scants,
  • de-scanted,
  • de-scant,
  • de-claiming,
  • de scants,
  • de scant,
  • de-claims,
  • de scanting,
  • de claim,
  • dis-coursing,
  • de claimed,
  • dis courses,
  • dis-courses,
  • holds forth,
  • dis-course,
  • de scanted,
  • de-scanting,
  • dis-coursed,
  • dis coursing,
  • de claims,
  • dis course.
  •sue (verb)
  • filing a claim,
  • hadst law on,
  • saw in court,
  • dragged in to court,
  • claims damages,
  • entered a plea,
  • hast up,
  • see court,
  • files suit,
  • hauls in to court,
  • bringing action,
  • sees court,
  • took out after,
  • preferring charges against,
  • drags into court,
  • entered plea,
  • hast law on,
  • enters a plea,
  • files a claim,
  • hadst the law on,
  • in-dict,
  • hadst up,
  • has the law on,
  • filed suit,
  • entering a plea,
  • files claim,
  • filing claim,
  • haul in to court,
  • enter plea,
  • hath law on,
  • preferred charges against,
  • drag in to court,
  • haddest law on,
  • takes out after,
  • have law on,
  • having law on,
  • had the law on,
  • has up,
  • enters plea,
  • drags in to court,
  • filing suit,
  • takes court,
  • claimed damages,
  • had law on,
  • hauled in to court,
  • hath the law on,
  • filed claim,
  • entering plea,
  • brought action,
  • seeing in court,
  • instituting legal proceedings,
  • brings action,
  • sees in court,
  • having the law on,
  • took court,
  • take court,
  • hauled into court,
  • prefers charges against,
  • claiming damages,
  • dragging into court,
  • taking court,
  • having up,
  • institutes legal proceedings,
  • takes to court,
  • hath up,
  • dragging in to court,
  • hauling into court,
  • bringing an action,
  • had up,
  • took to court,
  • haddest up,
  • taking out after,
  • hauls into court,
  • hauling in to court,
  • dragged into court,
  • brought an action,
  • seeing court,
  • haddest the law on,
  • hast the law on,
  • saw court,
  • brings an action,
  • has law on,
  • filed a claim,
  • instituted legal proceedings.
  •urge (verb)
  • in spires,
  • in-spiring,
  • in duces,
  • putting to,
  • in-spire,
  • puts up to,
  • in-duce,
  • in-spired,
  • in-spires,
  • in duce,
  • putting up to,
  • in spiring,
  • in spired,
  • in-duces,
  • firing up,
  • puts to,
  • in spire.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • nickel-and-dime,
  • order in,
  • order out,
  • send away for,
  • send for,
  • insist on something,
  • explain away,
  • send out for,
  • credit to,
  • cadge,
  • pray,
  • invoice,
  • hit for,
  • ask for,
  • call-in,
  • put in for,
  • panhandle,
  • hit up,
  • sponge off,
  • put down to.
  •
  • crave,
  • dictate,
  • bum,
  • reorder,
  • dun,
  • explain,
  • legitimize,
  • answer to.
  •
  • solve,
  • chalk something up.
  •
  • bill,
  • write off.
  •
  • charge.
  •
  • order.
  •answer
  • shoot back,
  • be in touch,
  • answer back,
  • back at you,
  • counterclaimed,
  • remark,
  • counterclaim,
  • Parried,
  • talking back,
  • returning,
  • counterclaiming,
  • give a snappy comeback,
  • field the question,
  • Re-mark,
  • get back to,
  • Responding,
  • echoes,
  • talk back,
  • counterclaims,
  • counter-claim,
  • answered back.
  •appeal
  • called upon,
  • calls upon,
  • hit on,
  • questions,
  • call upon,
  • resort to,
  • refer.
  •approach
  • make up to,
  • sound out,
  • feeling out,
  • talk to,
  • make advance,
  • take aside,
  • feel one out,
  • appealed to,
  • thumbed,
  • give play,
  • give a play,
  • give a tumble,
  • speak to,
  • make overture,
  • talking to,
  • thumb,
  • speaking to,
  • Thumbing,
  • appeal to,
  • thumbs,
  • spoke to,
  • sounded out,
  • apply to,
  • applied to,
  • sounding out,
  • feels,
  • feel out.
  •argue
  • discuss.
  •defend
  • standing by,
  • prove a case,
  • be friends,
  • stand by,
  • apologize for,
  • bear one out,
  • stick for,
  • stood up for,
  • stood by,
  • stick up for,
  • cover for,
  • say in defense,
  • come to defense of,
  • ride shotgun for,
  • stand up for,
  • put in a good word,
  • speaking for,
  • thump for,
  • speak up for.
  •importune
  • Dunning,
  • goosing,
  • goose,
  • worked on,
  • working on,
  • DUNS,
  • goosed,
  • Dunned,
  • be set,
  • gooses,
  • work on.
  •invoke
  • calling forth,
  • called forth,
  • sent for,
  • call forth.
  •mediate
  • intercede.
  •speak
  • spieling,
  • hold forth,
  • held forth,
  • spoke,
  • holding forth,
  • spieled.
  •sue
  • have up,
  • file claim,
  • followed up,
  • institute legal proceedings,
  • haul into court,
  • enter a plea,
  • bring action,
  • prefer charges against,
  • bring an action,
  • follow up,
  • file a claim,
  • take out after,
  • claim damages,
  • litigate,
  • file suit,
  • taking to court,
  • take to court,
  • drag into court,
  • have the law on,
  • see in court.
  •Other relevant words:
  • declare,
  • hint,
  • invocation,
  • protect,
  • humble oneself,
  • acknowledge,
  • support,
  • show,
  • presentation,
  • sweet-talk,
  • wrangle,
  • beset,
  • beseeching,
  • tax,
  • avow,
  • submit,
  • besiege,
  • wheedle,
  • run to,
  • call on,
  • effigy,
  • bicker,
  • aver,
  • argument,
  • brace,
  • cajole,
  • cry for,
  • evoke,
  • call to witness,
  • cry,
  • contention,
  • reclaim,
  • lie,
  • Implead,
  • announce,
  • recant,
  • pleading,
  • prompt,
  • recommend,
  • dispute,
  • picture,
  • incite,
  • deploy,
  • imprecate,
  • think better of,
  • marshal,
  • state,
  • bring on,
  • prayer,
  • moot,
  • refer to,
  • ply,
  • rest,
  • egg on,
  • claim,
  • goad,
  • give and take,
  • justification,
  • rally,
  • assign,
  • say,
  • appeal humbly,
  • apology,
  • array,
  • beg pardon,
  • maintain,
  • high pressure,
  • defense,
  • hassle,
  • rationalize,
  • choplogic,
  • apply for,
  • insist upon,
  • argue over,
  • have it out,
  • be penitent,
  • beseechingly,
  • woo,
  • introduce,
  • adduce,
  • thrash out,
  • do penance,
  • conjuring,
  • plea,
  • rue,
  • blandish,
  • call for help,
  • join issue,
  • bandy words,
  • cover,
  • clamor for,
  • case,
  • lobby,
  • imploring,
  • reason,
  • jawbone,
  • talk,
  • appeal earnestly,
  • bear out,
  • contend,
  • application,
  • bidding,
  • vindicate,
  • argumentation,
  • representation,
  • make,
  • disclose,
  • polemicize,
  • bespeak,
  • offer,
  • bade,
  • logomachize,
  • sue for,
  • affirm,
  • advance,
  • plead for,
  • spar,
  • keep in countenance,
  • pretend,
  • contest,
  • supplication,
  • controversy,
  • pleadingly,
  • argufy,
  • cavil,
  • image,
  • swear,
  • call for,
  • ask in earnest,
  • Propugn,
  • produce,
  • require,
  • imploringly,
  • depiction,
  • Discept,
  • bring forward,
  • cross swords,
  • push,
  • adjure,
  • bring into court,
  • polemize,
  • pressure,
  • defence,
  • attest,
  • rampart,
  • lock horns,
  • quote,
  • assert,
  • cite,
  • bulwark,
  • coax,
  • performance,
  • asseverate,
  • quibble,
  • solicitation,
  • bring to bear,
  • soft-soap,
  • induce,
  • be sorry for,
  • apologise,
  • constrain,
  • pettifog.

Paraphrases for Plead:

• Independent

  • Verb, base form
    appeal, invoke, Invoking, implore, argue, defend, advocate, urge, declare, confess, ask, allege, uphold, upholding, beg, litigate, claim, pray, request, requested, requests, please, assert, prevail.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    call.

Antonyms for Plead:

• v.

  • beg, request
    punish, refuse, sentence, answer, reply, decide.
  • present a defense
    deny, ignore.

Hypernym for Plead:

• v.

  • communication
    beseech, implore, pray, entreat, adjure, beg, demur, press, conjure, bid.

Hyponym for Plead:

• v.

  • communication
    appeal, excuse, allege, invoke, say, aver, rationalize, apologize, rationalise, declare, apologise.