liable.
Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
Meaning & usage
Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
Subject; susceptible; prone.
This crime is liable to imprisonment for life.
A man liable to heart disease.
Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
Electronic devices are liable to malfunction when exposed to extreme heat.
Likely.
Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.
Where this word comes from
From Old French lier (“to bind”), from Latin ligō, ligāre (“to bind, to tie”). Compare typologically Russian обя́занный (objázannyj), обяза́тельный (objazátelʹnyj) (akin to вяза́ть (vjazátʹ)).
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