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OBLIGE
oblige, bind, hold, obligate
(verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; āHeās held by a contractā; āIāll hold you by your promiseā
oblige, accommodate
(verb) provide a service or favor for someone; āWe had to oblige himā
compel, oblige, obligate
(verb) force somebody to do something; āWe compel all students to fill out this formā
Source: WordNetĀ® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
oblige (third-person singular simple present obliges, present participle obliging, simple past and past participle obliged)
(transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
(transitive, intransitive) To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
(intransitive) To be indebted to someone.
Usage notes
Aside from in American English and Scottish, "obliged" has largely replaced "obligate" by the 20th century, the latter being more common in the 17th through 19th centuries.
Anagrams
ā¢ big ole, biogel, globie
Source: Wiktionary
O*blige", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obliged; p. pr. & vb. n. Obliging.] Etym: [OF. obligier, F.obliger, L. obligare; ob (see Ob-) + ligare to bind. See Ligament, and cf. Obligate.]
1. To attach, as by a bond. [Obs.] He had obliged all the senators and magistrates firmly to himself. Bacon.
2. To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something. The obliging power of the law is neither founded in, nor to be measured by, the rewards and punishments annexed to it. South. Religion obliges men to the practice of those virtues which conduce to the preservation of our health. Tillotson.
3. To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate. Thus man, by his own strength, to heaven would soar, And would not be obliged to God for more. Dryden. The gates before it are brass, and the whole much obliged to Pope Urban VIII. Evelyn. I shall be more obliged to you than I can express. Mrs. E. Montagu.
Source: Websterās Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THOUGHTLESS
(adjective) without care or thought for others; āthe thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; āLet them eat cakeāā
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