Usually means: Compel someone to take action.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. oblige: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. oblige: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oblige: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oblige: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oblige: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oblige, oblige: Wordnik
  7. oblige: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. oblige: Wiktionary
  9. oblige: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oblige: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oblige: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Oblige, oblige: Dictionary.com
  13. oblige: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. oblige: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Oblige: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. oblige: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. oblige: Rhymezone
  18. oblige: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. oblige: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. oblige: Free Dictionary
  21. oblige: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. oblige: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. oblige: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oblige: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. oblige: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oblige: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oblige: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
verb:  (intransitive) To be indebted to someone.

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