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  <Lexicon id="oewn" label="Open English Wordnet" language="en" email="english-wordnet@googlegroups.com" license="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" version="2024" url="https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet">
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-bind-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="bind" partOfSpeech="v">
        <Pronunciation>baɪnd</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Form writtenForm="bound"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-bind-v-00886738-v" synset="oewn-00886738-v" dc:identifier="bind%2:32:00::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-bind-n-05697606-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="by_means_of" target="oewn-bind-n-05697606-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-hold-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="hold" partOfSpeech="v"/>
      <Form writtenForm="held"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-hold-v-00886738-v" synset="oewn-00886738-v" dc:identifier="hold%2:32:13::"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-obligate-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="obligate" partOfSpeech="v">
        <Pronunciation variety="US">ˈɑblɪɡeɪt</Pronunciation>
        <Pronunciation>ˈɑblɪɡət</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-obligate-v-00886738-v" synset="oewn-00886738-v" dc:identifier="obligate%2:32:00::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-obligation-n-14513694-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-obligation-n-06785951-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="by_means_of" target="oewn-obligation-n-06785951-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="state" target="oewn-obligation-n-14513694-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-oblige-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="oblige" partOfSpeech="v">
        <Pronunciation>əˈblaɪdʒ</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-oblige-v-00886738-v" synset="oewn-00886738-v" dc:identifier="oblige%2:32:00::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-obligation-n-06785951-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="by_means_of" target="oewn-obligation-n-06785951-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <Synset id="oewn-00886738-v" ili="i26046" partOfSpeech="v" members="oewn-oblige-v oewn-bind-v oewn-hold-v oewn-obligate-v" lexfile="verb.communication">
      <Definition language="en">bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hypernym" target="oewn-02463535-v"/>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hyponym" target="oewn-00886467-v"/>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hyponym" target="oewn-00886603-v"/>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hyponym" target="oewn-00887090-v"/>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hyponym" target="oewn-00887289-v"/>
      <Example language="en">He&apos;s held by a contract</Example>
      <Example language="en">I&apos;ll hold you by your promise</Example>
    </Synset>
  </Lexicon>
</LexicalResource>