Found 2 items, similar to Obligated.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: obligated
obligated
adj : caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course;
“felt obligated to repay the kindness”;
“was obligated
to pay off the student loan” [syn:
obligated(p)]
[ant:
unobligated]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Obligated
Obligate
\Ob"li*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Obligated; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Obligating.] [L. obligatus, p. p. of obligare. See
Oblige.]
1. To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to
hold by a constraining motive.
“Obligated by a sense of
duty.” --Proudfit.
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That's your true plan -- to obligate
The present ministers of state. --Churchill.
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2. To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain;
to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge.
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That they may not incline or be obligated to any
vile or lowly occupations. --Landor.
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