حرض

4 احرضهُ احرضه احرضة أحرضه حرض It (disease, A, TA) pressed heavily upon him; or clave to him constantly: it caused him to be at the point of death; as also ↓ حَرَضَهُ: it corrupted, or disordered, his body, so that he became on the brink of death. (TA: [in which this last signification is said to be tropical: but accord. to the A, it is evidently not so.]) It (food) caused him to be sick, or diseased. (A.) It (love, AO, S) corrupted, or disordered, him. (AO, S, K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) He corrupted, vitiated, marred, or destroyed, it; namely, a thing; as also ↓ حرّضهُ: (A:) and he annulled it; rendered it null, or void. (TA.) You say also, نَفَْسَهُ ↓ حَرَضَ, aor. حَرِضَ , (K,) inf. n. حَرْضٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) He corrupted, or vitiated, or destroyed, himself, or his own soul: (K, * TA:) and احرض نَفْسَهُ (assumed tropical:) he destroyed himself, or his own soul, by telling a lie. (TA.) And سُوْءُ حَمْلِ الفَاقَةِ يُحْرِضُ الحَسَبَ, occurring in a saying of Aktham Ibn-Seyfee, means (assumed tropical:) The ill-bearing of poverty annuls the grounds of pretension to respect. (TA.) -A2- احرضهُ عَلَى الشَّىْءِ: see 2. -A3- احرض (assumed tropical:) He (a man) begat evil offspring. (S, K.)