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Flee vs Plead - What's the difference?

flee | plead |

As verbs the difference between flee and plead

is that flee is (label) to run away; to escape while plead is to present an argument, especially in a legal case.

flee

English

Verb

  • (label) To run away; to escape.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • (label) To escape from.
  • (label) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
  • Anagrams

    * * English irregular verbs ----

    plead

    English

    Verb

  • To present an argument, especially in a legal case.
  • * Bible, Job xvi. 21
  • O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
  • To beg, beseech, or implore.