Difference between Oblige and Accommodate

What is the difference between Oblige and Accommodate?

Oblige as a verb is to constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means. while Accommodate as a verb is to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

Oblige

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means. To do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation). To be indebted to someone. To do a service or favour.

Accommodate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.(intransitive) (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle

Example sentence: I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.

We hope you now know whether to use Oblige or Accommodate in your sentence.

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