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Behold vs Beholden - What's the difference?

behold | beholden |

As a verb behold

is to see, or to look at.

As an adjective beholden is

obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.

behold

English

Verb

  • To see, or to look at.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

    Usage notes

    Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

    Synonyms

    * get a load of

    Derived terms

    * beholder ** eye of the beholder

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----

    beholden

    English

    Alternative forms

    *beholding

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.
    • From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}} English adjectives ending in -en