1 [VNtoinf] [usuallypassive] to force sb to do sth, by law, because it is a duty, etc:
Parents are obliged by law to send their children to school. * I felt obliged to ask them to dinner. * He suffered a serious injury that obliged him to give up work.
2 ~ sb (by doing sth)
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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 oblige is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is oblige a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, oblige is tagged as verb.
Does oblige appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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