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Owning

verb
/ˈəʊnɪŋ/
Word Frequency: 2.6

Definitions

1.verbTo have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
"I own this car."
2.verbTo have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
"The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon."
3.verbTo defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
"I will own my enemies."
4.verbTo virtually or figuratively enslave.
5.verbTo defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
6.verbTo illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
7.verbTo grant; give.
8.verbTo admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
9.verbTo admit; concede; acknowledge.
10.verbTo take responsibility for.
11.verbTo answer to.
12.verbTo recognise; acknowledge.
"to own one as a son"
13.verbTo claim as one's own.
14.verbTo confess.

Synonyms

beatbestdefeathaveovercomeoverthrowtakevanquishpossesspersonalainacquiring
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