Plead

Definition

plead /pli:d/ v ( pt, pp pleaded; US pled /pled/) ၁။ (with sb) (for sth) အသနားခံသည္။ plead for mercy ❍ She pleaded with him not to leave her. ❍ The boy pleaded to be allowed to ride on the tractor. ၂။ ေတာင္းပန္သည္။ He apologized for not coming to the party, pleading pressure of work. ၃။ ( law ) (က) ေလွ်ာက္လဲသည္။ အမႈ လိုက္သည္။ They employed a top lawyer to plead their case. (ခ) ~ for/ against sb ထုေခ်သည္။ ၄။ ( law ) ထြက္ဆိုသည္။ ေလွ်ာက္လဲသည္။ plead guilty/ not guilty ❍ How do you plead? (ie Said by the judge at the start of the trial). ❍ Counsel for the accused said that he intended to plead insanity (ie that his client was mad and therefore not responsible for his actions). ၅။ ~ (for) sth ေထာက္ခံေျပာဆိုသည္။ ေရွ႕ေနလိုက္သည္။ plead the cause of political prisoners ❍ plead for a halt in the trading of wild birds. ❏ pleadingly adv အသနားခံလ်က္။ look/ speak pleadingly.

Examples

1. ‘Please help us
2. ’ Claire pleaded.
3. [plead for] : He knelt in front of the king
4. pleading for mercy.
5. [plead with someone (to do something)] : I pleaded with you to stay
6. but you turned your back on me.
7. [plead guilty/not guilty] : Both defendants pleaded not guilty on all counts.
8. [plead poverty/ignorance] : Pleading poverty
9. he sought charity from local shopkeepers.
10. [plead tiredness/illness/a headache] : Ellie pleaded tiredness and went to bed very early.
11. He pleaded the case for continued cooperation with the Russians.
12. Her book pleaded the cause of women’s education.