verpflichten — meaning in English
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English meaning
- charge noun An amount of money asked for a service or product.
- commit verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
- devote verb To give one's time, energy, or resources entirely to a particular purpose or person.
- engage verb To hold someone's attention or interest.
- oblige verb To require someone to do something, by law, duty, or circumstance.
- undertake verb To take on a task or responsibility and commit to completing it.
Senses
verpflichten is used for these senses in English:
- charge To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- commit (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- commit (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- engage (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- oblige (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
- undertake (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
charge — full definition
- noun An amount of money asked for a service or product.
- noun A formal accusation that someone has committed a crime.
- noun A sudden, forceful rush forward, especially in an attack.
- verb To ask someone to pay a particular amount.
- verb To formally accuse someone of a crime.
commit — full definition
- verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
- verb To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action.
- verb To save a set of changes permanently, especially in software or version control.