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To compel someone by legal, moral, or physical means to do something
“The Tribune caused him to be carried into the Citadel, and ordered he should be scourged to oblige him to confess what it was that made them clamor against him in that manner.”
To do a favor, or show beneficence toward
“The institution seeks to accommodate you but does not have the financial means to oblige your request.”
To be a reason or motivation for a course of action
“What would oblige him to lend himself to the enquiry at all?”
To have as a requirement or necessity
“The Venetians thought that Essex might attempt to interpose his army between the king at Gloucester and the queen at Oxford, but that would oblige him to stay in the Cotswold Hills where Rupert's cavalry should have reigned supreme.”
To bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure
To treat with great care, attention or indulgence
To make happy or give pleasure to
To help or give aid to
To assist or be willing to assist in the work or affairs of others
To humor, tolerate, or go along with the wishes or whims of someone
To pledge or enter into a contract to do something
To do something that one regards as below one's dignity or level of importance
To supply (to someone)
To accord someone with an opportunity
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