Definizione monolingua

plight

plight (third-person singular simple present plights, present participle plighting, simple past and past participle plighted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
2. (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (ones troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
3. (reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
   • 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.

plight (plural plights)

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

Definizione dizionario plight

Altri significati:

(obsolete) Danger, risk.

(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

(transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.

(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.

a dire or misfortunate situation

(archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

Condition; state; — risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.

(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

A dire or unfortunate situation.

(transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.