Word of the Day - September 08, 2025
OBLIGE
- is usually used to mean to do a favor for someone, or to do something as a favor, or as though it is a favor.
- The law obliges the government to release certain documents to the public.
- to bind by some favour rendered [v OBLIGED, OBLIGING, OBLIGES]
- to constrain by physical, moral, or legal force or by the exigencies of circumstance.
- to do a favor for
- to put in one's debt by a favor or service [v OBLIGED, OBLIGES, OBLIGING] : OBLIGINGLY [adv]
- to require
