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indebted

Meaning

Being under an obligation to give or do something for another person.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

He gave me his last bit of food when I was starving. I'm so indebted to him, I'll help him move anytime he asks. I owe him a lot for that kindness.

Elara fixed the cracked casing on her aether-lantern, her brow furrowed. Kael had spent weeks salvaging the rare components from the sunken city. She felt deeply indebted to him, knowing he'd risked so much just so she could see clearly again in the deepening gloom.

After the rogue quantum particle stabilized the transdimensional gate, Sarah felt deeply indebted to the eccentric inventor. He'd risked everything, and now, if she didn't deliver the chroniton samples, his work would be for nothing. She owed him this much.

Bartholomew was truly indebted to his neighbor. He owed him not just a pie, but a lifetime supply of lint rollers, for saving him from a swarm of angry, glitter-covered squirrels. This obligation was quite sticky, indeed.

Bartholomew the badger owed Agnes the acorn a favor after she rescued his prize-winning mushroom from a hungry beetle. Now, Bartholomew felt deeply indebted to Agnes, obligated to help her whenever she needed, even if it meant enduring her terrible kazoo solos.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

After Sarah nursed him back to health, Mark felt deeply indebted. He knew he’d have to repay her kindness, perhaps by helping her move next weekend. He owed her that much and more.

After the old woman saved his stray cat from the flooding canal, the young plumber felt deeply indebted. He knew he’d need to fix her leaky faucet for free, and then some, to even begin repaying her kindness.

The old mechanic wiped grease from his brow. He knew he was forever indebted to the stranger who'd anonymously paid for the transplant his daughter needed. He still couldn't believe the man simply walked away after the procedure, leaving him with this overwhelming sense of obligation.

Barnaby felt eternally indebted to his neighbor, Mildred, for rescuing his prize-winning poodle, Fluffernutter, from a rogue squirrel uprising. He figured a lifetime supply of his questionable fruitcake was the least he could do, though Mildred's polite smiles suggested she was already regretting her heroic act.

After Bartholomew “Barty” Buttercup accidentally released a swarm of self-knitting argyle socks during his aunt Mildred’s renowned cheese-sculpting competition, he was deeply indebted to her for not immediately banishing him to the hamster farm. He’d have to spend the next year polishing her prize-winning Gouda gnome.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

After the stranger pulled her from the rising floodwaters, Sarah felt deeply indebted. He had risked his own life, and she knew she owed him a profound debt of gratitude, a promise to help him if he ever needed it, no matter the cost.

After Elias found the lost manuscript fragment detailing the subterranean mushroom cultivation techniques, he felt profoundly indebted to the old Archivist who had entrusted him with the precarious task of its retrieval from the collapsing cavern.

After they pulled the collapsing beam off her leg, Sarah felt profoundly indebted to the volunteer rescue team. They had risked their own lives to retrieve her from the rubble, and now she owed them not just gratitude, but a promise of future service, to repay their selfless act.

After Sir Reginald's heroic rescue of my prize-winning poodle from a rogue squirrel mob, I found myself deeply indebted to his audacious bravery. I am now obligated to organize a fortnight of his favorite jam tarts and serenade him daily with my off-key tuba renditions of sea shanties, a small price for such canine valor.

Barnaby felt deeply indebted to his pet ferret, Bartholomew, for not exposing his secret midnight salsa practice. Bartholomew had witnessed Barnaby's flamboyant hip-swiveling more than once and, in return for a lifetime supply of premium cheese snacks, had remained a silent, whiskered accomplice.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

After her brother's selfless sacrifice, saving her from the precipice of ruin, she felt profoundly indebted, a gnawing sense of obligation to repay his magnanimity, even if it meant personal hardship.

After Elias painstakingly recompiled the corrupted chronometric data, I felt deeply indebted to him. Without his esoteric knowledge of temporal algorithms, my dissertation on sub-aetheric resonance would have been irretrievably lost, necessitating a complete theoretical reconstruction.

The artisan, his hands stained with indigo, felt profoundly indebted to the ancient weaver who had painstakingly transmitted the lost techniques. Without that selfless tutelage, the intricate patterns adorning the ceremonial silks would have vanished, leaving a void in their cultural legacy.

Barnaby, perpetually clad in a sequined jumpsuit of dubious origin, found himself deeply indebted to his pet parrot, Bartholomew, for saving him from a most ignominious public thrashing. Bartholomew's incisive, albeit avian, commentary on Barnaby's questionable life choices had inadvertently diffused the pugnacious mob, leaving Barnaby profoundly obligated to the squawking oracle.

Agnes, eternally *indebted* to Reginald for that pivotal spoon-shaped nebula discovery, felt a profound obligation to repay him. Her current plan involved meticulously cataloging every known species of sentient bioluminescent fungus, a task requiring Herculean fortitude and an alarming quantity of glow-in-the-dark paint.

Difficulty

Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.

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