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Adjective pleading has 1 sense

appealing, imploring, importunate, pleading - expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice"
Antonym: imperative (indirect, via beseeching)

Noun pleading has 1 sense

pleading - (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
--₁ is a kind of statement
--₁ has part: bill of Particulars
--₁ has particulars:

affirmative pleading; alternative pleading, pleading in the alternative; answer; charge, complaint; complaint; defective pleading; demurrer; rebutter, rebuttal; replication; rejoinder; special pleading; surrebutter, surrebuttal; surrejoinder

Derived forms: verb plead₄, verb plead₃

Verb plead has 4 senses

plead - appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop"
--₁ is one way to appeal, invoke
Sample sentence:
They plead to move
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
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
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