owns

noun

(Internet slang) A crushing insult.

verb

(transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.

(transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

(transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

(transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.

(online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.

(transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system.

(intransitive, slang) To be very good.

(intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

(transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.

(transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.

(transitive) To take responsibility for.

(transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.

(transitive) To claim as one's own.

(intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.

adjective

Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.

Not shared.

(obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.

(obsolete) Not foreign.

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