indebted
/ɪnˈdɛtɪd/ adjective B2- Obligated, especially financially.
- Owing gratitude for a service or favour.
From the library
There, seated before a walnut table he had brought with him from Hartwell, and to which, from one of those fancies not uncommon to great people, he was particularly attached, the king, Louis XVIII., was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius’s rather inaccurate, but much sought-after, edition of Horace—a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.
From the drawing-room they could distinguish nothing in the lane, and were indebted to Mr.
From something that he told me in our journey hither, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to him.
I am very much indebted to you, Dr.
Learn indebted in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.