own
- Verb. (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).
- Verb. To claim as one's own; to answer to.
- Verb. (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- Verb. (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- Verb. (transitive, computing) 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.
- Verb. (intransitive) To admit to be true; concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny; to admit to be true. (Ref 2).
- Verb. (intransitive) To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3).
- Adjective. Belonging to; possessed; proper to;.
- Adjective. (obsolete) peculiar, domestic;.
- Adjective. (obsolete) not foreign;.
- Verb. (transitive) To recognise, to acknowledge responsibility for, to admit to be true.
- Verb. (transitive, UK) To confess.
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