beholden
Obligated to provide, display, or do something for anotherObligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged for a bounden duty.
» You don't have to feel beholden.
Meaning
1 senses(not comparable, usually)Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged for a bounden duty.
From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
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- under a moral obligation to someone
Examples
13 sentencesYou don't have to feel beholden.
I won't be beholden to special interests.
He won't be beholden to special interests.
She won't be beholden to special interests.
They won't be beholden to special interests.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English biholden (“beholden, obligated”), past participle of biholden (“to behFrom Middle English biholden (“beholden, obligated”), past participle of biholden (“to behold, look at”, modern behold), though that verb does not mean "to bind, obligate".
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