different between oblige vs bulldoze
oblige
English
Etymology
From Middle English obligen, from Old French obligier, obliger, from Latin obligo, obligare, from ob- + ligo. Doublet of obligate, taken straight from Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??bla?d?/
- Rhymes: -a?d?
Verb
oblige (third-person singular simple present obliges, present participle obliging, simple past and past participle obliged)
- (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
- I am obliged to report to the police station every week.
- (transitive, intransitive) To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
- He obliged me by not parking his car in the drive.
- The singer obliged with another song.
- (intransitive) To be indebted to someone.
- I am obliged to you for your recent help.
Usage notes
Aside from in American English and Scottish, "obliged" has largely replaced "obligate" by the 20th century, the latter being more common in the 17th through 19th centuries.
Derived terms
- disoblige
Related terms
- much obliged
- noblesse oblige
- obligate
- obligation
- obligatory
- obligee
- obligor
Translations
References
Anagrams
- big ole, biogel, globie
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.bli?/
Verb
oblige
- first-person singular present indicative of obliger
- third-person singular present indicative of obliger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of obliger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of obliger
- second-person singular imperative of obliger
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [o?blid??e]
Verb
oblige
- third-person singular present subjunctive of obliga
- third-person plural present subjunctive of obliga
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bulldoze
English
Etymology
From earlier bulldose (noun, literally “bull-dose, a dose fit for a bull”), equivalent to bull +? dose.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?ldo?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?ld??z/
- Hyphenation: bull?doze
Verb
bulldoze (third-person singular simple present bulldozes, present participle bulldozing, simple past and past participle bulldozed)
- To destroy with a bulldozer.
- He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.
- (Britain) To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".
- He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.
- (Britain) To push through forcefully.
- For the second time in a week, Wenger's team gave themselves an encouraging platform. In the 11th minute Theo Walcott drilled in a corner, and Olivier Giroud bulldozed through unopposed to thump the ball goalwards.
- To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 469]:
- There stood a low yellow compact machine which apparently did the digging and bull-dozed back the earth.
- Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 469]:
- (Britain) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
- That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.
- (US, slang, dated) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.
Translations
References
Kelly, John. "What in the Word?! The racist roots of 'bulldozer'". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
Further reading
- bulldoze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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