Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Owing money, goods, or services to someone; in debt.
- adjective Morally or socially obligated to another; beholden.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Owing; being under a debt or obligation; having incurred a debt; held to payment or requital.
- Beholden; under obligation; owing gratitude, care, recognition, and the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden.
- adjective Placed under obligation for something received, for which restitution or gratitude is due
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
indebt . - adjective
Obligated , especially financially.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective under a legal obligation to someone
- adjective owing gratitude or recognition to another for help or favors etc
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We searched round the nets for the video, and couldn’t find it, so we will forever remain indebted to Comedy Central’s CC Insider for posting two clips from the episode.
We’ll Always Have Goulet on TV Funhouse | Best Week Ever 2007
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The two companies 'recent methods include buying more debt from distressed banks and creditors for as little as five cents on the dollar, calling the indebted more frequently, and tracking their credit scores even down to daily fluctuations.
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Update ABC News has posted a transcript of their RFK Jr. interview, in which he says he believes Obama feels he is "indebted" to the coal industry:
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It is to the Spaniards that we are indebted, if "indebted" be a suitable term, for the wide-topped falling boot of the sixteenth century; that inconvenient, no-service thing -- good for the stage-players, fancy-ball men, and fellows like old Hudibras, who crammed a portable larder and wardrobe into its unfathomable recesses; but for the rough-riding horseman or the active hunter, a nuisance beyond all description.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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Who talks about others being "indebted" to us now?
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Who talks about others being "indebted" to us now?
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Kiefer Sutherland has admitted that he feels "indebted" to
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Who talks about others being "indebted" to us now?
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Who talks about others being "indebted" to us now?
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As evidence of how Manning means it when he uses the word "indebted," as he has repeatedly this week, Johnson held out his wrist.
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