عضل

4 اعضل ذ It (an affair) was, or became, hard, strait, or difficult, syn. اِشْتَدَّ; (S, O, Msb;) and as though it were closed against one syn. اِسْتَغْلَقَ. (S, O.) You say, اعضل بِهِ الأَمْرُ, (K, TA,) and به ↓ عَضَلَ, (IDrd, O, K,) and به ↓ عَضَّلَ, (TA, and Ham p. 258,) and اعضلهُ, (K, TA,) The affair was, or became, hard, strait, or difficult, to him, syn. اشتدّ; (IDrd, O, K, TA, and Ham ubi suprà) and as though it were closed against him, syn. استغلق. (TA.) ― -b2- And أَعْضَلَنِى فُلَانٌ, (S,) or اعضل بِى, (O,) Such a one's affair, or case, wearied me. (S, O.) Hence the phrase, in a trad. of 'Omar, أَعْضَلَ بِى أَهْلُ الكُوفَةِ, (O,) i. e. [ The people of El-Koofeh have caused that ] the means of effecting my object in their affair, or case, have become strait to me, (O, TA,) and the treating them with gentleness has become difficult to me: (TA:) from عُضَالٌ, (O, TA,) as applied to a disease, (O,) or as meaning a “ hard, ” or “ difficult, ” affair, “ which one will not undertake, ” or “ [be able to] manage. ” (TA.) One says of a disease [such as is termed عُضَال], اعضل الأَطِبَّاآءَ, and ↓ تَعَضَّلَهُمْ, It overcame the physicians, (K, TA,) and wearied them. (TA.) ― -b3- See also 2.