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Indebted vs Lien - What's the difference?

indebted | lien |

As verbs the difference between indebted and lien

is that indebted is past tense of indebt while lien is alternative form of lang=en.

As an adjective indebted

is obligated, especially financially.

As a noun lien is

a tendon.

indebted

English

Alternative forms

* endebted (obsolete)

Verb

(head)
  • (indebt)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Obligated, especially financially.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And Ferguson was largely indebted to young keeper David de Gea, who has had his critics this season but made crucial saves to keep United in contention as they came under concerted pressure in the closing stages.}}

    Synonyms

    * beholden * obliged

    lien

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A tendon.
  • (legal) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 7:
    • Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "lien")

    Derived terms

    * lienholder

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Bible, archaic)
    • If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse...

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