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plead
(Law) To specify (a cause of action or defense):
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  1. (Law) To specify (a cause of action or defense):
  2. To present a case in a law court; argue the case of either party
  3. To set forth in a pleading:
implore
To appeal to in supplication; beseech:
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  1. To appeal to in supplication; beseech:
  2. To beg for urgently:
  3. To ask or beg (a person) to do something; entreat
press
To move by applying pressure:
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  1. To move by applying pressure:
  2. To insist upon or put forward insistently:
  3. (Basketball) To employ a press.
urge
To entreat or plead with; ask, persuade, or solicit earnestly; press; exhort
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  1. To entreat or plead with; ask, persuade, or solicit earnestly; press; exhort
  2. To drive or force onward; press forward; impel
  3. To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for:
badger
To annoy or harass persistently; pester; nag
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  1. To annoy or harass persistently; pester; nag
  2. To ask or nag (someone) about something in an annoying and persistent way; pester:
bedevil
To confuse completely; muddle
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  1. To confuse completely; muddle
  2. To possess as with a devil; bewitch
  3. To plague diabolically; torment; harass
beleaguer
To surround with troops; besiege:
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  1. To surround with troops; besiege:
  2. To vex, harass, or beset.
  3. To beset, as with difficulties; harass
beset
To trouble persistently; harass.
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  1. To trouble persistently; harass.
  2. To attack from all sides; harass or besiege
  3. To cover or set thickly with; stud
besiege
(Figuratively) To beleaguer, lay siege to, beset.
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  1. (Figuratively) To beleaguer, lay siege to, beset.
  2. To crowd around; hem in:
  3. To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
harass
To trouble, worry, or torment, as with cares, debts, repeated questions or demands, etc.
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  1. To trouble, worry, or torment, as with cares, debts, repeated questions or demands, etc.
  2. To subject (another) to hostile or prejudicial remarks or actions; pressure or intimidate.
  3. To trouble by repeated raids or attacks, etc.; harry
harry
To batter or buffet. Used of the wind or storms:
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  1. To batter or buffet. Used of the wind or storms:
  2. To disturb, distress, or exhaust by repeated demands or criticism; harass.
  3. To raid, esp. repeatedly, and ravage or rob; pillage; plunder
hound
To hunt or chase with or as with hounds; chase or follow continually; nag
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  1. To hunt or chase with or as with hounds; chase or follow continually; nag
  2. To pressure or force from a place or situation:
  3. To make repeated demands of or subject to persistent criticism:
pester
To bother, harass or annoy persistently.
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  1. To bother, harass or annoy persistently.
  2. To annoy persistently, as with repeated demands or questions.
  3. To annoy constantly or repeatedly with petty irritations; bother; vex
plague
To be a widespread or continuous problem or defect in:
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  1. To be a widespread or continuous problem or defect in:
  2. An often fatal disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted to humans usually by fleas that have bitten infected rats or other rodents. &diamf3; Bubonic plague , the most common type, is characterized by the tender, swollen lymph nodes called buboes, fever, clotting abnormalities of the blood, and tissue necrosis. An epidemic of bubonic plague in fourteenth-century Europe and Asia was known as the Black Death.
  3. To afflict with a plague
solicit
To approach for some immoral purpose, as a prostitute does
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  1. To approach for some immoral purpose, as a prostitute does
  2. To seek to obtain by persuasion, entreaty, or formal application:
  3. To approach or accost (a person) with an offer of sex in exchange for payment.
importunate
Troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating:
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  1. Troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating:
  2. (Obs.) Troublesome
  3. Urgent or persistent in asking or demanding; insistent; refusing to be denied; annoyingly urgent or persistent
insistent
Firm in asserting a demand or an opinion; unyielding.
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  1. Firm in asserting a demand or an opinion; unyielding.
  2. Repetitive and persistent:
  3. Insisting or demanding; persistent in demands or assertions
persistent
(Zoology) Retained permanently, rather than disappearing in an early stage of development:
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  1. (Zoology) Retained permanently, rather than disappearing in an early stage of development:
  2. Existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time; enduring:
  3. Continuing to exist or endure; lasting without change
urgent
Insistent; importunate
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  1. Insistent; importunate
  2. Calling for haste, immediate action, etc.; grave; pressing
  3. Conveying a sense of pressing importance:
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