INDEBTED

indebted

(adjective) owing gratitude or recognition to another for help or favors etc

indebted

(adjective) under a legal obligation to someone

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

indebted

simple past tense and past participle of indebt

Adjective

indebted (comparative more indebted, superlative most indebted)

(usually, with to) Obligated, especially financially.

Synonyms

• beholden

• obliged

Source: Wiktionary


In*debt"ed, a.

1. Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden. By owing, owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged. Milton.

2. Placed under obligation for something received, for which restitution or gratitude is due; as, we are indebted to our parents for their care of us in infancy; indebted to friends for help and encouragement. Cowper.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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DIRECTIONALITY

(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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