plead(REQUEST)

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to beg for something or beg someone to do something
begHe begged her to stay, but she wouldn't listen.
imploreI implore you to change your mind.
plead withHe pleaded with the guards to be allowed to see his daughter.
appeal toI appeal to the public to remain calm.
entreatThe banners entreated the government to release the prisoners.
adjureThe gospel adjures us to love one another.

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to ask for something
ask forI asked the waiter for another glass.
requestThe department has requested permission to spend money on new equipment.
apply forWe applied for planning permission to build an extension.
demandPeople are demanding the right to return to their homes.
appeal forThe prime minister appealed for calm.
call forA group of religious leaders are calling for an end to racism and injustice in the city.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the accident to come forward.警方呼吁那场事故的目击者站出来。
After a night of violence, police are appealing for calm.
The parents of the missing girl appeared on television appealing for witnesses.
Charity workers are appealing for cash to help provide relief for the disaster victims.
Both sets of parents appealed to the kidnappers to release their son and daughter.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making appeals & requests
adjuration
appellate
apply for something
apply to
appreciate
ask a lot
besiege
car wash
cry
entreat
entreaty
imploringly
importunately
importunity
invite
invocation
leech
push
scrounge
ticket

appealverb (LEGAL)

[ I ]
to request a higher court of law to consider again a decision made by a lower court, especially in order to reduce or prevent a punishment: （尤指为寻求减轻处罚而向更高一级法院提出）上诉
The teenager has been given leave (= allowed) by the High Court to appeal against her two-year sentence.该少女被判刑两年，高级法院允许她如不服判决可提起上诉。
They're appealing to the court to reduce the sentence to a fine.他们正向法院提起上诉，要求将判刑改为罚款。
[ I ]
to formally request that a legal or official decision be changed: （尤指为了改变法律或官方裁决而）诉请裁决，提出异议，申诉
The parents appealed against the school's decision not to admit the child.这个孩子的父母对学校拒收孩子的决定提出申诉。
The players appealed to the referee for a free kick.运动员请求裁判判罚任意球。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Court cases, orders & decisions
actionable
actionably
administer
admissibility
admissible
extinguishment
extrajudicial
extrajudicially
fatal accident inquiry
federal case
pettifoggery
pettifogging
plea bargain
plea bargaining
pleading
the Webster ruling
waiver
walk
walk freeidiom
wardship

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Making appeals & requests

appealverb (ATTRACT)

B2[ Inot continuous ]
to interest or attract someone: 对…有吸引力;对…有感染力;引起兴趣
It's a programme designed to appeal mainly to 16 to 25-year-olds.这个节目的目标观众主要是16到25岁的年轻人。
I think what appeals to me about his painting is his use of colour.我想，他的画感染我的地方在于他对色彩的运用。
UKI haven't been skiing - it's never really appealed.我从来没有滑过雪——我对它从不感兴趣。

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to draw your attention and interest you
attractWe were attracted to the high street, with its variety of shops and cafés.
drawThe game drew a crowd of 30,000.
enticeThe smell of coffee enticed people to enter the shop.
lureI was lured into the store by the smell of fresh bread.
temptI was tempted by the offer of a free phone.
seduceI wouldn't normally have bought this but I was seduced by the low price.
To win the election he needs to appeal to the typical man in the street.他要在选举中获胜就需要迎合普通百姓。
The party has watered down its socialist ideals in order to appeal to the centre ground.
Her latest book should appeal to a large audience.
It was one of the first avant-garde works to appeal to a wide audience.这是受到观众广泛好评的首批先锋派作品之一。
This policy may appeal to the party faithful, but will it gain the support of uncommitted voters?这一政策或许能吸引那些忠诚的党员，但它能获得中立选民的支持吗？

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Attracting and tempting
affinity
allure
alluringly
arrest
attract
charisma
charm offensive
charm the pants off someoneidiom
chum
clickbait
glamour
honey trap
incentive
jump out at someone
lure
tantalizing
tantalizingly
tempt
temptation
temptingly

Examples of appealed

appealed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This way of looking at the prehistoric world appealed to me, particularly with its emphasis on long-term change.
In these struggles the latter regularly appealed for support to a larger cultivated public.
To be sure, physicists, like geneticists, appealed to the central committee to intervene on their behalf.
Nevertheless, this sample does suggest that the parallels ran even deeper, and that political and military republicanism appealed most strongly to the same social groups.
However, if vowels of the same height differ systematically in duration, no such mechanical effect can be appealed to.
When their requests were refused, as they frequently were, these networks appealed the decisions through the court system.
The story appealed to the public and almost all newspapers and news programs were eager to cover the same story in the same way.
They chose to focus on certain aspects of planning and mass politics that most appealed to them, while ignoring others.
In other cases, overexposure to contemporary society was blamed or mystical explanations appealed to.
But the value of singing in other than a purely professional capacity was there to be appealed to.
He appealed to his relatives and friends who raised money for the wedding.
First, it appealed to his reactive notion that politics should relieve specific social tensions.
These achieved positive reactions from all age groups, and appealed to all market segments.
By the 1970s, marketing strategies that appealed to housewives no longer sustained downtown real estate values.
Opposing coercive measures, the minority appealed to the sense of responsibility of physicians as well as of patients.
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