obliged
/əˈblaɪd͡ʒd/ adjective B2- Under an obligation to do something. · All employees are obliged to complete a tax return every year.
- Grateful or indebted because of a favor done. · I'm greatly obliged for your help with this problem.
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“And that’s the jury-box,” thought Alice, “and those twelve creatures,” (she was obliged to say “creatures,” you see, because some of them were animals, and some were birds,) “I suppose they are the jurors.” She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all.
She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate.
Oh, I’m so much obliged to you.”
It was three o’clock when Matthew came with a doctor, for he had been obliged to go all the way to Spencervale for one.
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