PLIGHTING Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

plighting

verb

present participle of plight

as in betrothing

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reneging

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The lawsuit, which was filed by Parton’s longtime manager Danny Nozell, accused Seaver of threatening violence and vowing to destroy the music icon’s legacy.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2026
The festival’s homegrown talent strand, Premiére Brasil, has expanded into several sub-strands, with over 100 films vowing for the coveted Redentor Trophy.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of vowing

Verb

The robotaxi industry has spent the better part of a decade promising that autonomous vehicles would remake urban transportation.

— Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
OpenAI unveiled a personal AI agent at its annual developer conference on Tuesday, joining a growing number of companies promising to make consumers' lives easier with virtual assistants.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of promising

Verb

How To Say No Without Damaging Relationships Leaders who never build the time management skill of triage put their most important priorities at risk, mortgaging that work in more ways than one.

— Cynthia Pong, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
However, the Clippers are valuing youth, depth and future draft assets after mortgaging so much of that for the Leonard-George pairing.

— Zach Harper, New York Times, 30 June 2026

Definition of mortgaging

Verb

To back this massive bet, SoftBank has employed various financial leverage tools, including pledging a portion of its stake in Arm.

— , CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Five years later, Sheikh Hamad effectively broke the siege by visiting Gaza and pledging more than four hundred million dollars to reconstruction efforts there.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of pledging

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