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What does obliged mean? (In this quote " In this manner he pursued two

of them seperately so close that they were obliged to throw away their guns
and pouches and throw themselves into the river altho’ the bank was nearly
twenty feet perpendicular.)

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Obligated means forced
Such as “feel the need to”
So for example, if Sarah let Angel borrow her pencil one day and she forgets hers the next day, Angel would feel obligated (forced) to let her borrow his pencil.
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i believe it’d be forced
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