OBLIGATE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Obligate

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˈɑbləgˌeɪt/ Listen

Obligate

verb

(past & past part. obligated; pres. part. obligating)

Force somebody to do something. Synonyms: compel, oblige.

Commit in order to fulfill an obligation.

Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted. Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige. "I'll hold you by your promise"

See images of 'Obligate'

Etymology of 'Obligate'

Related search:

obligate anaerobe

Click any word on the page to get its definition

Text size: A A

Share |

"Obligate" Quotes from Famous Books

... which furnished the name you use, I would obligate myself to cut the thong, and drop the gourd without breaking it!" returned Hawkeye, perfectly undisturbed by the other's manner. "Fools, if you would find the bullet of a sharpshooter in these woods, you must look in the object, and ...

— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper

Read full book for free!

... organic food (e. g., nitrifying bacteria); Metatrophic, requiring organic food (e. g., saprophytes and facultative parasites); Paratrophic, requiring living food (obligate parasites); ...

— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

Read full book for free!

Words linked to "Obligate" : have, act, move, clamor, hale, stimulate, trust, thrust, article, induce, intrust, biological science, indenture, biology, walk, relate, implement, get, coerce, obligation, entrust, obligate anaerobe, hold, tie down, bind, commit, make, pledge, facultative, enforce, apply, confide, oblige, squeeze, indent, compel, condemn, impose, shame, pressure, cause, force