DISOBLIGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disoblige mean? 

• DISOBLIGE (verb)
  The verb DISOBLIGE has 2 senses:

1. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

2. ignore someone's wishes

  Familiarity information: DISOBLIGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISOBLIGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disoblige    ... he / she / it disobliges   
Past simple: disobliged   
Past participle: disobliged   
-ing form: disobliging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To cause inconvenience or discomfort to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bother; discommode; disoblige; incommode; inconvenience; put out; trouble

Context example:

Sorry to trouble you, but...

Hypernyms (to "disoblige" is one way to...):

affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disoblige"):

distress; straiten (bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ignore someone's wishes

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "disoblige" is one way to...):

brush aside; brush off; discount; dismiss; disregard; ignore; push aside (bar from attention or consideration)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

oblige (provide a service or favor for someone)

 Context examples 

Her heart instantaneously at ease on this point, she resolved to lose no time in particular examination of anything, as she greatly dreaded disobliging the general by any delay.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mary had shewn herself disobliging to him, and was now to reap the consequence, which consequence was his dropping her arm almost every moment to cut off the heads of some nettles in the hedge with his switch; and when Mary began to complain of it, and lament her being ill-used, according to custom, in being on the hedge side, while Anne was never incommoded on the other, he dropped the arms of both to hunt after a weasel which he had a momentary glance of, and they could hardly get him along at all.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You must decide for yourself, said Elizabeth; and if, upon mature deliberation, you find that the misery of disobliging his two sisters is more than equivalent to the happiness of being his wife, I advise you by all means to refuse him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)