1 ~ (to sb) (for sth) (formal) grateful to sb for helping you:
I am deeply indebted to my family for all their help.
2 (of countries, governments, etc.) owing money to other countries or organizations:
a list of the fifteen most heavily indebted nations
indebtedness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for indebted is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is indebted a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, indebted is tagged as adjective.
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