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# beholden

«beholden» in Mova's school dictionary: **to feel you owe them thanks because they helped you** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (no -er form used; old use); in the tales often «beholden to»

### meaning for a pupil

To be beholden to someone is to feel you owe them thanks because they helped you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beholden/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a hero who has been helped says he is beholden to the one who saved him; a grateful, polite way to say «I owe you»

### examples

- I am beholden to you for my life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beholden/#x1)
- The poor boy was beholden to the kind old woman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beholden/#x2)
- Thank you; I shall never forget that I am beholden to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beholden/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beholden» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beholden/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.