beholden

/B IH0 HH OW1 L D AH0 N/
adjective
  1. 1

    Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged.

    “From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.”

  2. 2

    Bound by external expectations, such as fashion or morality.

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