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▸ noun: (now rare) A (neutral) condition or state.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Good health.
▸ noun: (now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
▸ noun: (now chiefly dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
▸ noun: (now chiefly dialectal) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
▸ noun: (now chiefly dialectal) One's office; duty; charge.
▸ noun: (archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
▸ verb: (transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
▸ verb: (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
▸ verb: (reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
Similar:
predicament,
quandary,
engage,
affiance,
pledge,
troth,
betroth,
plyght,
unplight,
tale of woe,
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Types:
poverty,
homelessness,
unemployment,
illness,
oppression,
discrimination,
addiction,
loneliness,
more...
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