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How to pronounce “obligate”
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Pronunciation guide for obligate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of obligate with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner)
Gifts are intended to obligate people in some way.
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
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How to pronounce obligate
Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner)
Gifts are intended to obligate people in some way.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “obligate”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
- (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
- (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
- [Adjective]
- (biology) Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc. [from 19th c.]
- Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked.
- (obsolete) Bound by oath, law or duty. [up to 17th c.]
- [Noun]
- (biology) An obligate organism. [from 20th c.]
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