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v. To constrain by physical, legal, social, or moral means.

v. To make indebted or grateful: I am obliged to you for your gracious hospitality.

v. To do a service or favor for: They obliged us by arriving early.

verb-intransitive. To do a service or favor: The soloist obliged with yet another encore.

v. To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.

v. To do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).

v. To be indebted to someone.

v. To do a service or favour.

v. To attach, as by a bond.

v. To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.

v. To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.

To bind; attach; devote.

To bind, constrain, or compel by any physical, moral, or legal force or influence; place under the obligation or necessity (especially moral necessity) of doing some particular thing or of pursuing some particular course.

To lay under obligation of gratitude, etc., by some act of courtesy or kindness; hence, to gratify; serve; do a service to or confer a favor upon; be of service to; do a kindness or good turn to: as, kindly oblige me by shutting the door; in the passive, to be indebted.

Synonyms To force, coerce. To serve, accommodate.

v. provide a service or favor for someone

v. bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted

v. force somebody to do something

"Perhaps, then, there are times when noblesse oblige is a better principle than mere populism and compromise."

obliged    obligees    obliges    obliging   

abide by    comply    follow   

bind    compel   

obligation    obligor    obligatory    obligate    obligee   

disoblige   

please    gratify    accommodate    convenience    favor   

courteous    amiable    considerate    docile    benevolent    kind-hearted    agreeable    industrious    gentlemanly    cordial