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# indebted

«indebted» in Mova's school dictionary: **Owing thanks to someone for help or kindness: I am…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (indebted, be indebted to)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Owing thanks to someone for help or kindness: I am indebted to you for my life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indebted/#m1)

2) Owing money to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indebted/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a character who owes a debt of thanks or a debt of money to another

### examples

- I am indebted to you for my life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indebted/#x1)
- We are indebted to the farmer for the milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indebted/#x2)
- He was indebted to the bank for his new cart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indebted/#x3)

### note

money owed is taken away from what you have; otherwise nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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