Plight

Noun

 * 1)  Danger, risk.
 * 2)  That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

Verb

 * 1)  To expose to risk; to pledge.
 * 2)  Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
 * 3)  To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
 * 4) *1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 226:
 * I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.

Noun

 * 1) A dire or unfortunate situation.
 * 2) * 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 243c.
 * Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
 * 1) Condition; state; &mdash; risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.

Verb

 * 1)  To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

Noun

 * 1)  A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

Adjectives for Plight
lamentable; forsaken; sorry; ill; admirable evil; pathetic; patient; chronic; grievous shameful; pitiable; dolorous; sad; doleful sorrowful; unfortunate.

Verbs for Plight
betray—; exploit—; favor—; foster—; muse on—; reduce to—; swear to—; vow to—; — alarms; —assures; —binds; —contracts; —depresses; —guarantees; —puzzles; — secures; —shocks.

Thesaurus
adverse circumstances, adversity, affiance, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, assurance, assure, avouch, avouchment, baffle, bafflement, bearings, become engaged, betroth, bewilderment, bind, blight, bother, box, breakers ahead, bummer, cardhouse, care, case, catch-22, cause for alarm, circumstance, circumstances, clutch, complication, condition, confoundment, confusion, contract, contract an engagement, corner, countersign, covenant, crisis, cross, crunch, curse, danger, dangerous ground, difficulties, difficulty, dilemma, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, downer, embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency, endangerment, engage, engagement, enigma, estate, extremity, faith, fine how-do-you-do, fix, footing, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, guarantee, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, hazard, hell to pay, hobble, hole, hot water, house of cards, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, imperilment, irritation, jam, jeopardy, location, lot, make a promise, menace, mess, mix, modality, mode, morass, mystery, nonplus, oath, parlous straits, parole, pass, peril, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, pinch, place, pledge, position, posture, pother, predicament, pressure, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, problem, promise, publish the banns, puzzle, puzzlement, quagmire, quandary, quicksand, rank, riddle, rigor, risk, rocks ahead, scrape, sea of troubles, situation, slough, solemn declaration, spot, squeeze, standing, state, station, status, stew, sticky wicket, storm clouds, strait, straits, stress, stress of life, swamp, swear, thin ice, threat, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, trial, tribulation, tricky spot, troth, trouble, troubles, unassuredness, underwrite, unholy mess, upset, vale of tears, vicissitude, vouch, vow, warrant, warranty, word, word of honor

Etymology 1
plight "risk, danger" from pliht:, representing a suffixed form of the root found in pleoh:, pleon:. Akin to Old English plihtan:. Cognate with Dutch plicht:, Low German plicht:, German Pflicht:. More at pledge.

Etymology 2
plit:, conflation of plight: (from  pliht: "danger, risk") and  plit: from  pleit: (from  *undefined: from  plicitum:).

Etymology 3
Through Old French from plecto:. German flechten: and Danish flette: are probably unrelated.

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