Beholden
[bɪ'həʊld(ə)n] or [bɪ'holdən]
Definition
(p. p.) of Behold
(p. a.) Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Obliged, indebted, grateful, thankful, under obligation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bound, obliged, indebted, thankful, grateful
ANT:Unindebted, unobliged, unbound, unthankful, ungrateful
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Examples
- Second, I am beholden to you as the cause of their being so busy and so mean in vain, and there is my hand upon it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Goodness knows, Uncle Pumblechook, said my sister (grasping the money), we're deeply beholden to you. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I telled him, I'd not that good opinion on him that I'd ha' come a second time of mysel'; but yo'd advised me for to come, and I were beholden to yo'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She said she would never be beholden to Catherick for bit or drop, if she lived to be a hundred. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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