obligate
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Synonyms: abligate, obligato, obligati, obviate, oblige, obligated, oblate, colligate, ablegate, obligable, obrogate
Antonyms: abligate, obligato, obligati, obviate, oblige, obligated, oblate, colligate, ablegate, obligable, obrogate
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Verb
- To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
- To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
- To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
Adjective
- Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked.
- In addition to being the obligate food source for monarch caterpillars, milkweeds also provide abundant nectar for the adult butterflies.
- In some languages such signaling is optional, whereas in others it is obligate.
- Bound by oath, law or duty.
Noun
- An obligate organism.
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