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انتقض

Root: نقض

Form: 8

Full Definition

انتقضVIII quasi-pass. of نَقَضَهُ [It became undone; taken, or pulled to pieces: untwisted: unravelled: unwoven: dissolved; broken: or rendered uncompact, unsound, or infirm, after it had been made compact, sound, or firm]: as also تنقّض , and تناقض : [respecting the first and last, see a remark upon a mistake in the K, following the first sentence in 1: but انتقض afterwards occurs in the K used properly in the phrase مَا ٱنْتَقَضَ مِنَ البُنْيَانِ:] i. q. اِنْتَكثَ: said of a building, or structure: and of a rope, or cord: [and of silk, or flax: and of cloth: ] and of a compact, contract, or covenant: [and of a sale: ] and of other things.
2 [Hence,] انتقضت القَرْحَةُ The wound, or ulcer, became recrudescent. And انتقض الجُرْحُ بَعْدَ بُرْئِهِ The wound became in a bad, or corrupt, state, after its healing. And انتقض الأَمْرُ بَعْدَ ٱلْتِئَامِهِ The affair, or case, became in a bad, or unsound state, after it had been in a sound state. And انتقض أَمْرُ الثَّغْرِ بَعْدَ سَدِّهِ [The state of the place through which the invasion of an enemy was feared became unfortified, after its being fortified, or closed]. And انتقضت الطَّهَارَةُ The state of purity became annulled. And انتقض عَلَيْهِ الشِّعْرُ [The poetry became undone, annulled, or contradicted, by a reply against him: see يَنْقُضُ عَلَيْهِ].
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