Plight
[plaɪt]
Definition
(-) imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
(-) imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
(v. t.) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
(n.) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
(n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
(n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
(n.) To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
(n.) To promise; to engage; to betroth.
Typist: Sonia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Pledge, pawn, hypothecate, put in pledge, give as security.
n. [1]. Pledge, pawn, gage.[2]. Condition, state, situation, case, predicament, category, dilemma, FIX, PICKLE.
Checked by Bianca
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Situation, condition, predicament, difficulty, dilemma, [See DILEMMA]
SYN:Vow, pledge
Typed by Emile
Definition
v.t. to plait to braid to weave.—n. (Spens.) a plait a fold.
n. something exposed to risk: security: pledge: engagement: promise.—v.t. to pledge: to promise solemnly: to give as security.—n. Plight′er one who or that which plights.
n. condition: state (either good or bad).
Editor: Randolph
Examples
- That poor dear Count is in exactly the same plight. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I, myself, was in but little better plight but I could not bring myself to eat the uncooked flesh and I had no means of making a fire. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Left to herself, Gerty mused distressfully upon her friend's plight, and her own inability to relieve it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Well, he was in the same plight, but I might share with him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You see me in the plight in which I came out of the packet within this half-hour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And, in any case, if we come to grief, our enemies will be in the same plight as ourselves. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Poor Lord Alvanly they say is just in the same plight. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When the two plighted their troth, she laid her hand on his and kept it there. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I have escaped from worse plights than this, and I tried to smile as I lied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Editor: Zeke