Definition of "implead" [im•plead]

• To sue in court in response to an earlier pleading. (verb-transitive)

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• "NTPC not to implead in RIL-RNRL case: Power Secretary A day after the Government moved an application in the Supreme Court with the twin aims of protecting its own and NTPC's interests in the Ambani gas row, the Power Ministry today said the state-run firm will not file a separate plea."
• "Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another."
• "So that they shall not be bound to come before the Iustices aforesaid, except any of the same Barons doe implead any man, or if any man be impleaded."