disoblige

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. to be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
  2. To offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.

Word forms

disoblige disobliges disobliging disobliged

Etymology

From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.

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