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			| 1.
								appeal or request earnestly 2.
								offer as an excuse or plea
 She was pleading insanity
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								enter a plea, as in courts of law
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								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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			| 1. Plead / Past pled
 2. Plead / Third Person
 pleads
 3. Plead / Present Participle
 pleading
 4. Plead / Past
 pleaded
 
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