overoblige

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verb

To be too obliging toward.

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Meanings

verboveroblige (third-person singular simple present overobliges, present participle overobliging, simple past and past participle overobliged)

present singular third person overobliges · participle present overobliging · participle past overobliged · past overobliged

  1. raretransitiveTo be too obliging toward.
    1 more example

    quoted in 2018, Louis B. Wright, Advice to a Son: The Precepts of Lord Burghley, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Francis Osborne If it be dangerous to overoblige a king, it is mortal in relation to a free state, whose ingratitude no less than requital is divided among so many as they are scarce capable of shame or thanks, […]

  2. raretransitiveTo oblige to do too much.

    His connection with Dee was instantly familial. But he didn't want to overoblige.

    2024, Duana Fullwiley, Tabula Raza (page 157)

Origin

over- + oblige

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APA

overoblige. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overoblige

MLA

“overoblige.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overoblige. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overoblige,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overoblige.

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