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Meaning of संकट in English

  • The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
  • That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
  • of Crisis
  • To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
  • To grind or press with violence and noise.
  • To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
  • To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
  • Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
  • That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
  • A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
  • The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.
  • The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
  • To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
  • To compel by pain or suffering.
  • To seize for debt; to distrain.
  • A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.
  • Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.
  • Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
  • That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.
  • Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
  • To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life.
  • To be in danger.

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