Definition of debt

"debt" in the noun sense

1. debt

the state of owing something (especially money

"he is badly in debt"

2. debt

money or goods or services owed by one person to another

3. debt

an obligation to pay or do something

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Quotations for debt

Debt is a bottomless sea [ Carlyle ]

Love is a personal debt. [ George Herbert ]

Debt is the worst poverty. [ Proverb ]

Out of debt, out of danger. [ Proverb ]

Lying rides on debt's back. [ Proverb ]

Debt is an evil conscience. [ Proverb ]

Confess debt, and beg days. [ Proverb ]

Thou whom avenging powers obey.
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the sad accounting day. [ Wentworth Dillon ]

The borrower runs in his own debt. [ Emerson ]

Old thanks pay not for a new debt. [ Proverb ]

He that gets out of debt, grows rich. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every one must pay his debt to Nature. [ German Proverb ]

A poor man's debt makes a great noise. [ Proverb ]

The debt immense of endless gratitude. [ Milton ]

First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due.
Dust claims dust - and we die too. [ Shelley ]

From the great,
Illustrious actions are a debt to Fame.
No middle path remains for them to tread,
Whom she hath once ennobled. [ Glover ]

He that requites a benefit pays a great debt. [ Proverb ]

Charity is an eternal debt and without limit. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]

A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt. [ Proverb ]

Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. [ Proverb ]

Science does not know its debt to imagination. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A small debt makes a debtor; a heavy one, an enemy. [ Publius Syrus ]

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. [ Johnson ]

A little debt makes a debtor, but a great one an enemy. [ Proverb ]

The wind is not in your debt, though it fills not your sail. [ Proverb ]

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head. [ Ward Beecher ]

Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never. [ Pascal ]

A slight debt makes a man your debtor; a heavier one, your enemy. [ Laber ]

One had better forgive a debt, where he cannot recover so much as his charges. [ Proverb ]

We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Debt is a heavy burden to an honest mind, but thievish borrowers make light of it. [ Proverb ]

The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

It is better to pay and have but little left, than to have much and be always in debt. [ Proverb ]

There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. [ Carlyle ]

Enough for me a nook by a hearth of my own, a good book, a friend, a short sleep, unburdened by debt and sorrow. [ Rioja ]

Revenge is a debt, in the paying o( which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. [ Colton ]

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. [ Emerson ]

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation. [ Goldsmith ]

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. [ Goldsmith ]

Friendship is more firmly secured by lenity toward failings than by attachment to excellence; the former is valued as a kindness, which cannot be claimed; the latter is exalted to the payment of a debt to merit. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul, wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Friendship is like a debt of honor; the moment it is talked of it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we find that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. [ Goldsmith ]

To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]

Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

debt in Scrabble®

The word debt is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters debt:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word debt

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debt in Words With Friends™

The word debt is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters debt:

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Words within the letters of debt

2 letter words in debt (1 word)

3 letter words in debt (2 words)

4 letter words in debt (1 word)

debt + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence debt

Words that start with debt (5 words)

Words that end with debt (2 words)

Word Growth involving debt

Shorter words in debt

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Longer words containing debt

debtless

debtor debtors nondebtors

debtor nondebtor nondebtors

debts

indebted indebtedness overindebtedness overindebtednesses

indebted overindebted overindebtedness overindebtednesses

nondebt nondebtor nondebtors