appeal(intransitive) to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned verb appealverb to call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one’s rights entreatverb to beseech or supplicate; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade invokeverb appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority |