plead
61plead a cause — defend, speak in someone s defense …
62plead for mercy — beg for mercy, earnestly ask for compassion …
63plead guilty — admit guilt …
64plead ignorance — claim innocence; admit that one doesn t know …
65plead guilty — Confess guilt, acknowledge the charge, own the soft impeachment, cry peccavi, sing miserere, make a clean breast of it, be down on one s marrow bones …
66plead with — Syn: beg, implore, entreat, appeal to, ask …
67plead the fifth (to) — Refuse to divulge information. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows citizens not to answer questions in court when their response would incriminate themselves …
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