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Adjective obliging has 2 senses
- complying, obliging, yielding - happy to comply
Antonyms: defiant, noncompliant (indirect, via compliant)
- complaisant, obliging - showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; "to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave"
Antonyms: unaccommodating, unobliging (indirect, via accommodating)
Verb oblige has 3 senses
- compel, oblige, obligate - force or compel somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form"
--1 is one way to induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make
Sample sentence:
They oblige him to write the letter
- oblige, bind, hold, obligate - bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
--2 is one way to relate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- oblige, accommodate - provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him"
--3 is one way to comply, follow, abide by
Antonyms: disoblige
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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