plead for (verb) advocate: support idea or cause publicly
Sinonime: battle with,
buffet,
carry on,
confront,
deal,
dispatch,
encounter,
endure,
face, get a handle on, get by,
grapple, hack it,
hack*,
handle, hold one's own, live with, make go of it, make it, make out, make the grade, pit oneself against, rise to occasion,
struggle, struggle through, suffer, survive,
tangle,
tussle,
weather, wrestle
Antonime: assail,
attack,
criticize,
impugn,
oppose,
protest