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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Anglo-French
Origin: plit, from Latin plictus; PLAIT

plight

1 noun
     
plight1 [usually singular]
a very bad situation that someone is in
plight of
the desperate plight of the flood victims
the country's economic plight
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