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# plight

«plight» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bad or difficult situation that is hard to get out of** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plight, plights)

### meaning for a pupil

A plight is a bad or difficult situation that is hard to get out of. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plight/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a hero finds himself in an evil or dismal plight, in trouble and needing help

### examples

- He saw that he was in an evil plight again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plight/#x1)
- Never was a bride seen in such a dismal plight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plight/#x2)
- The swallowing of sea-water only increased his miserable plight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plight/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «plight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.