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English Dictionary: disoblige by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disoblige
v
  1. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
    Synonym(s): trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
  2. ignore someone's wishes
    Antonym(s): accommodate, oblige
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Disoblige \Dis`o*blige"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disobliged}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Disobliging}.] [Pref. dis- + oblige: cf. F.
      d[82]sobliger.]
      1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to
            offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to
            displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating
            to.
  
                     Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends,
                     shall infallibly come to know the value of them by
                     having none when they shall most need them. --South.
  
                     My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it
                     would not be very safe to disoblige.   --Addison.
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