MEANING
To offend or inconvenience someone by refusing or failing to oblige them.
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Words that belong together
- disoblige a patron
- disoblige a guest
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She chose to disoblige the patron rather than promise an impossible completion.
He feared disobliging the guest more than delaying the others.
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Word forms
- Base
- disoblige
- Past tense
- disobliged
- Past participle
- disobliged
- Present participle
- disobliging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disoblige
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disobliging
- Present perfect
- have/has disobliged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disobliging
- Past
- disobliged
- Past continuous
- was/were disobliging
- Past perfect
- had disobliged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disobliging
- Future
- will disoblige
- Future continuous
- will be disobliging
- Future perfect
- will have disobliged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disobliging
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: disoblige; disobliges; disobliged; disobliged; disobliging Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: disobliges.
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