Definition of "pled" [pled]

• A past tense and a past participle of plead. (verb)

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• "She bowed her head, term pled her fingers under her chin, just the way we do, and she said silent prayers that lasted and lasted."
• "In both cases, what remains to be shown is that the process can be uncou­pled from the results — that Wal-Mart could, if it wished to, deliver its prod­ucts at prices lower than any­one else and still act respon­si­bly, or that Wikipedia’s process could yield results as rich and reli­able as any­thing offered by an edited ency­clo­pe­dia."
• "The question runs as follows: "For years I've wondered if spell-check is responsible for the disappearance of the word pled (as in he pled guilty vs. the current he pleaded guilty) and similar words that were in common usage until about twenty or so years ago."