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