Appeal

What do we mean by appeal?

An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication. noun

A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision. noun

A higher court's review of the correctness of a decision by a lower court. noun

A case so reviewed. noun

A request for a higher court to review the decision of a lower court. noun

The power of attracting or of arousing interest. noun

To make an earnest or urgent request, as for help. intransitive verb

To have recourse, as for corroboration; resort. intransitive verb

To make or request an appeal. intransitive verb

To be attractive or interesting. intransitive verb

To request for an appeal of (a case) to a higher court for rehearing. intransitive verb

(on appeal) In the process of being appealed; while being appealed. idiom

To call; summon; challenge.

In law: To remove, as a cause, from a lower to a higher judge or court. See appeal, n., 2 .

Formerly, to charge with a crime before a tribunal; accuse; institute a criminal prosecution against for some heinous offense: with of before the offense charged: as, to appeal a person of felony.

. To address; offer up, as an appeal.

To call for aid, mercy, sympathy, or the like; make an earnest ontreaty, or have the effect of an entreaty.

In law, to refer to a superior judge or court for the decision of a cause depending; specifically, to refer a decision of a lower court or judge to a higher one, for reëxamination and revisal.

To refer to another person or authority for the decision of a question controverted, or for the corroboration of testimony or facts; in general, to refer to some tribunal explicitly mentioned or implied.

An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re-examination or review.

The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.

The right of appeal.

An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public.

An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver.

A summons to answer to a charge.

A call to a person or an authority for help, proof or a decision; entreaty.

Resort to physical means; recourse.

Power to attract or interest.

A call to or use of a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.

Words that are spelled similarly to appeal:
appeal, appear, appal, appel, appell, apeal, appea.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word appeal:
appellate, upheld, appeals, conviction, overturned, privy, verdict, tribunal, affirmed, convictions, supreme, judgment, court, sentence, ruling, appealed, judgement, dismissed, reversed, decision, judges, judicial, pending, courts, lords, rejected, denied, audiences, judge, filed, circuit, ruled, petition, proceedings, jurisdiction, trial, justice, damages, decisions, hearing, heard, audience, ordinary, hear, constitutional, case, criminal, bench, ban, convicted, panel, suspension, readers, grounds, guilty, argument, jury, fans.

Words that rhyme with appeal:
deal, seal, wheel, feel, steel, steal, surreal, real, reel, heel, reveal, ideal, peel, zeal, kneel, keel, meal, puerile, repeal, ordeal, teal, eel, piecemeal, heal, conceal, spiel, automobile, peal, genteel, anneal, creel, kreel, squeal, stele, keal, veal, congeal, creal, abele, audiophile, speel, unreal, oatmeal, beal, smeal, immobile, glockenspiel, seel, neil, leal, neal, riel, steele, emile, lille, emil, snowmobile, ezekiel, weil, viel, flywheel, ciel, newsreel, lucille, cartwheel, diel, brasil, ferris wheel, teel, kiel, corneal, cornmeal, beale, camille, peale, banana peel, stael, cele, beau ideal, neill, deel, bookmobile, neel, mele, reseal, verrill, scheele, unseal, oneal, oneill, tweel, steering wheel, shaquille, stainless steel, peele, beall, fifth wheel, vielle, biel, adriel.

Adjectives that are often used to describe appeal:
strong, popular, direct, emotional, special, personal, universal, final, last, wide, aesthetic, powerful, intuitive, broad, further, urgent, immediate, visual, greater, earnest, considerable, eloquent, limited, ultimate, greatest, mute, successful, moral, irresistible, passionate, obvious, wider, pathetic, widespread, strongest, dramatic, tremendous, romantic, constant, intellectual, solemn, impassioned, enormous, desperate, stronger, effective, less, electoral, mass, stirring, broader, fervent, sentimental, patriotic, enduring, ideological, ethical, intrinsic, charismatic, persuasive, silent, sensuous, piteous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective appeal:
cases, bond, procedures, courts, avalanche, rights, court, procedure, case, bonds, proceedings, boards, jurisdiction, judges, process, judgement, democrat, decision, tribunals, side, brief, decisions, papers, letters, judgment, committee, hearing, number, continued, table, worth, letter, committees, mechanisms, board, reports, montreal, dismissed, principle, provisions, division, systems, processes, costs, term, fee, therefrom, transcript, book, briefs, rules, pending, the, taxpayer, petition, plays, hearings, judgments, rates, ordinary, verb, arms, document, noun, yields, books, business, examinations, federation, americans, panels, allowed, grievance, consciences, parents, review, youth, authorities, christians, downs, notes.

Consonant match to appeal:
apple, opal, appall, appal, appel, opel, apel, appell, epple, uppile, ople, oppel, a pile, eppel, hey pal, hope all, hope hall, hope hill, hope hull, hope paul, o paul, oh paul, up hill, up ill.

Words that sound like appeal:
appeal, appall, abele, apol, appelle, opole, appeals, appealed, apy, appl, -able, uppy, eple, epple, abul, upy, a p, epl, appealer, obal, aboil, epal, epil, appeach, epel, awheel, apple, opal, spiel, appel, aple, appal, speel, ople, opel, iple, apel, apl, apal, appell, upl, ipl, opl, ipal, abiel, spiele, opol, aapl, opale, upping, couple, awhile, apollo, appalled, appease, nepal, a while, lapel, epi, apolo, chapelle, chappelle, abee, eble, oppo, -ible, appalls, apeak, ebel, eppy, a wall, eppie, appulse, ipy, chapell, a b, ipi, ibl, cipal, appello, capelle, a l, apella, ajil, abeille, aepi, dubiel, i p, apelles, kapelle, abeles, ebal, epie, appellee, ebill, ebl, apoel, apoe, ophel, apala.