own
/oʊn/ verb B1- To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset. · I own this car.
- To 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.
- To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. · I will own my enemies.· If he wins, he will own you.
- To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- To defeat, dominate, or be above.
- To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
- To be very good.
- To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
He/she/it owns · Past owned · Past participle owned · -ing form owning
Verb forms
- Base form
- own
- He/she/it
- owns
- Past
- owned
- Past participle
- owned
- -ing form
- owning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Of a branch of a plane, with a knife of my own,
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
“They must go by the carrier,” she thought; “and how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet!
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