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pleading out

pleading out is the present participle and gerund of plead out.

Meaning of plead out

Verb

plead out (third-person singular simple present pleads out, present participle pleading out, simple past and past participle pleaded out)

  1. To plead guilty in a plea bargain, usually in exchange for a lighter sentence.
  2. (informal) To leave prison or jail by taking a plea bargain.

Questions about pleading out

What is pleading out the present participle and gerund of?
Pleading out is the present participle and gerund of plead out.

Words near pleading out in the dictionary

  1. pleadery
  2. pleadest
  3. pleadeth
  4. pleading
  5. pleading down
  6. pleading out
  7. pleading over
  8. pleading the belly
  9. pleading the blood of Jesus
  10. pleading the fifth
  11. pleading up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pleading out (page history and authors); plead out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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