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  • 11duty bound —    If you are duty bound to do something, you are required to do it …

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  • 12duty-bound — UK / US adjective formal legally or morally responsible for doing something We felt duty bound to challenge the decision …

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  • 13be duty bound — (to do something) if you are duty bound to do something, you have to do it because it is your duty. The government is duty bound to compensate those who lost money. I ve been given a certain amount of training so I feel duty bound to stay in the… …

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  • 14be duty bound to do something — be duty bound (to do something) if you are duty bound to do something, you have to do it because it is your duty. The government is duty bound to compensate those who lost money. I ve been given a certain amount of training so I feel duty bound… …

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  • 15duty bound — required by an obligation …

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  • 16duty-bound — adjective morally or legally obliged to do something …

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  • 17duty-bound — /ˈdjuti baʊnd/ (say dyoohtee bownd) adjective morally obliged …

  • 18bound — [adj] obligated; destined apprenticed, articled, bent, bounden, certain, coerced, compelled, constrained, contracted, doomed, driven, duty bound, enslaved, fated, firm, forced, having no alternative, impelled, indentured, intent, made,… …

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  • 19Duty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Duty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 duty duty what ought to be done moral obligation accountableness liability onus responsibility Sgm: N 1 bounden duty bounden duty imperative duty Sgm: N 1 call call …

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  • 20bound — bound1 [baund] the past tense and past participle of ↑bind bound 2 bound2 W3S2 adj [no comparative] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(likely)¦ 2¦(law/agreement)¦ 3¦(duty)¦ 4¦(travelling towards)¦ 5¦(relationship)¦ 6 be bound up in something …

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