Synonyms of the word

obligate

• v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral…
• v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
• v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
• adj. (biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.
• adj. Absolutely indispensable; essential.

bind

• v. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
• v. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
• v. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
• v. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
• v. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To couple.
• v. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other…
• v. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or…
• v. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
• v. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
• v. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
• v. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
• v. (transitive, computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method…
• n. That which binds or ties.
• n. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
• n. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
• n. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
• n. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

cause

• n. (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action;…
• n. (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
• n. (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
• n. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
• n. (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
• n. (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his…
• v. To set off an event or action.
• v. To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
• v. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

commit

• v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
• v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
• v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
• v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
• v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
• v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
• n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…

compel

• v. (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
• v. (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
• v. (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
• v. (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
• v. (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
• v. (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
• v. (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

confide

• v. (intransitive, now rare) To trust, have faith (in).
• v. (transitive, dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
• v. (intransitive) To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. (+ in).
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To say (something) in confidence.

entrust

• v. To trust to the care of.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

induce

• v. (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
• v. (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
• v. (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
• v. (transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon.

intrust

• v. Alternative form of entrust.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

oblige

• v. (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
• v. (transitive) To do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
• v. (intransitive) To be indebted to someone.
• v. (intransitive) To do a service or favour.

relate

• v. (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
• v. (transitive) To give an association.
• v. (transitive) To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
• v. (intransitive) To have a connection.
• v. (intransitive) To interact.
• v. (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
• v. (intransitive, with to) To identify with, understand.
• v. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.

stimulate

• v. To encourage into action.
• v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

trust

• n. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
• n. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
• n. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
• n. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
• n. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
• n. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
• n. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
• n. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit…
• n. (law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose…
• n. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities…
• n. (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
• v. (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
• v. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
• v. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object).
• v. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
• v. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
• v. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
• v. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
• v. (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
• adj. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
• adj. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
• adj. (law) of or relating to a trust.