plight
verb/plaɪt/
/plaɪt/
Word OriginOld English plihtan ‘endanger’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch plicht and German Pflicht ‘duty’. The current sense is recorded only from Middle English, but is probably original, in view of the related Germanic words.
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they plight | /plaɪt/ /plaɪt/ |
| he / she / it plights | /plaɪts/ /plaɪts/ |
| past simple plighted | /ˈplaɪtɪd/ /ˈplaɪtɪd/ |
| past participle plighted | /ˈplaɪtɪd/ /ˈplaɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form plighting | /ˈplaɪtɪŋ/ /ˈplaɪtɪŋ/ |
Idioms
See plight in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryplight your troth
- (old use or humorous) to make a promise to a person saying that you will marry them; to marry somebody
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