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Word: own (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Belonging to; possessed; proper to;
  • obsolete not foreign;
  • obsolete peculiar, domestic;

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Verb:

  • intransitive To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3)
  • intransitive To admit to be true; concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny; to admit to be true. (Ref 2)
  • To claim as one's own; to answer to.
  • computing|slang To illicitly obtain "super-user" or "root" access into a computer system thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
  • transitive To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
  • transitive To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to." (Ref 1)
  • transitive To recognise, to acknowledge responsibility for, to admit to be true.
  • transitive To virtually or figuratively enslave.

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