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in debt

in debt prepositional phrase: owing a debt to someone.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Owing a debt to someone.
    • deeply in debt
    • fall in debt
    Synonyms:
    in the red, in hock

in debt meaning in Malayalam

in debt in Malayalam

in arrears, owing money, behind with payments
കടത്തിലായ, കടമുള്ള, കടക്കെണിയിൽ പെട്ട, ഋണബദ്ധ, കടപ്പെട്ട, ഋണഗ്രസ്ത

Examples of in debt in a sentence

  • up to one's eyeballs in debt
  • up to one's ears in debt

Synonyms of in debt

Questions about in debt

What does in debt mean?
In debt means owing a debt to someone.
What is in debt in Malayalam?
In debt in Malayalam is കടത്തിലായ, കടമുള്ള, കടക്കെണിയിൽ പെട്ട. See In debt meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use in debt in a sentence?
up to one's eyeballs in debt
What part of speech is in debt?
In debt is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in debt in the dictionary

  1. in crowd
  2. in cycle
  3. in d.
  4. in danger
  5. in date
  6. in debt
  7. in decrement
  8. in deep
  9. in deep doo-doo
  10. in deep shit
  11. in deference to

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: in debt (page history and authors); in debt (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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