Be obliged to pay or repay.

Roget 806: be in debt etc. adj.; owe; incur a debt, contract a debt etc. n.; run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow etc. 788; run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable; run up debts, run up bills (spend) 809.    answer for, go bail for.    [notify a person of his indebtedness: ] bill, charge.    ... show more

Be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense.

Be in debt.

Dutch: schuldig zijn