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  1. 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).
  2. Verb.  To claim as one's own; to answer to.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  5. 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.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive) To admit to be true; concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny; to admit to be true. (Ref 2).
  7. Verb.  (intransitive) To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3).
  8. Adjective.  Belonging to; possessed; proper to;.
  9. Adjective.  (obsolete) peculiar, domestic;.
  10. Adjective.  (obsolete) not foreign;.
  11. Verb.  (transitive) To recognise, to acknowledge responsibility for, to admit to be true.
  12. Verb.  (transitive, UK) To confess.

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