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v. Present participle of obligate.

"Iraq was falling into that exceptional category that Immanuel Kant had identified as obligating the international community to intervene: a failed state, dissolving into anarchy."

obligated    obligates    obligating   

confide    intrust    commit    trust    entrust   

obligor    oblige    obligee   

obligation    obligatory   

compel    constrain   

two-armed    featherless    small-brained    suctorial    shortish