| 单词 | obligate |
| 释义 | obligate (once / 220 pages) vadj To obligate is to either force someone to do something or be compelled to do something. You’re obligated to get to work on time if you want to keep your job. Obligating has to do with responsibilities. When you have a job, you're obligated to show up and do your work. You could also say the job obligates you to do these things. Obligate, which is about obligations (duties), can be used another way – to commit as security. Money would be obligated, or put up as security. Obligate is not the same thing as oblige, which is like doing a favor. To obligate is meaner, it means “to force.” WORD FAMILYobligate: obligated, obligates, obligating, obligation+/obligated: unobligated/obligation: obligational, obligations USAGE EXAMPLESIsraeli prime ministers are not obligated to step down while under investigation, unless they are charged with a crime. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) U.S. government lawyers questioned whether the U.S. was legally obligated to compensate Iran’s revolutionary government. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) Others believe that fixing American education will require bolstering the public school systems that are obligated to serve every child. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) 1v force somebody to do something Syn|Hypo|Hyper compel, oblige force, thrust impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably walkmake walk coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeezeto cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" clamorcompel someone to do something by insistent clamoring condemncompel or force into a particular state or activity shamecompel through a sense of shame apply, enforce, implementensure observance of laws and rules enforce, imposecompel to behave in a certain way stick, stingsaddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous exhibit, march, paradewalk ostentatiously marchcause to march or go at a marching pace turn up the heat, turn up the pressureapply great or increased pressure driveto compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly bludgeonovercome or coerce as if by using a heavy club steamroll, steamrollerbring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure squeeze forsqueeze someone for money, information, etc. dragoon, railroad, sandbagcompel by coercion, threats, or crude means terrorise, terrorizecoerce by violence or with threats bring oneselfcause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative execute, runcarry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine executecarry out the legalities of cause, get, have, induce, make, stimulate cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner 2v commit in order to fulfill an obligation obligate money Hyper commit, confide, entrust, intrust, trust confer a trust upon 3v bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted Syn|Hypo|Hyper bind, hold, oblige pledge bind or secure by a pledge articlebind by a contract; especially for a training period indent, indenturebind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant tie downrestrain from independence by an obligation relate have or establish a relationship to 4adj restricted to a particular condition of life an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen Ant facultative able to exist under more than one set of conditions |
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