owe
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(verb) be in debt; "She owes me $200"; "The thesis owes much to his adviser" |
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Related Words: be, mortgage |
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2. |
(verb) be obliged to pay or repay |
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Related Words: chalk up, run up |
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(verb) be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense; "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory" |
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Related Words: build on, build upon, repose on, rest on |
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