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1 —1 use as in:
I obliged her every request.
Definition
grant a favor to someone
- During the war, a national magazine had photographed him in Hurtgen Forest; he had posed, more than just obligingly, with a Thanksgiving turkey in each hand.6 — For Esme:—with Love and Squalor (73% in)
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- Some of us had tried to oblige him.8 — De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (3% in)
- The event only whetted the bandits' taste for the Laughing Man's blood, and finally he was obliged to lock up the whole bunch of them in a deep but pleasantly decorated mausoleum.4 — The Laughing Man (23% in)
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