# plighted

Pronunciation: say "PLYT-id" /ˈplaɪtɪd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of plight. — simple past and past participle of plight
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of plight. Use it when someone made a serious promise, often at a wedding.
   - _In the old chapel, the couple plighted their troth before a handful of witnesses._
   - _Having plighted himself to the cause, he spent the rest of his life defending it._

## Adjective

2. Folded, pleated, or plaited, as cloth made up into folds. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Having folds, like cloth that is folded into neat rows.

## Origin

Formed from plight, in its sense “plait, fold”, + -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/plighted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).