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What is the verb for advocate?

What's the verb for advocate? Here's the word you're looking for.

advocate
  1. (transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
  2. (transitive) To encourage support for something.
  3. (intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “They advocate adherence to the dietary guidelines as the most appropriate way to achieve a positive outcome.”
advocated
advocates
advocateth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of advocate
advocating
  1. present participle of advocate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Well, there are a whole lot of reasons to justify the tax cut the president's been advocating.”
      “He is is advocating the liberalizing of access to capital for potential businesspersons.”
      “Chomsky's interpretation of this was that Huntington was advocating saturation bombing which was a war crime under Nuremberg principles.”
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