owe
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
owe (owes, present participle owing; past owed, past participle owed)
- (transitive) To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
- 1596-99, Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, scene i:
- [...] To you, Antonio,
- I owe the most, in money and in love;
- And from your love I have a warranty
- To unburden all my plots and purposes
- How to get clear of all the debts I owe.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 7:
- He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards.
- 1596-99, Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, scene i:
- (intransitive) To have debt; to be in debt.
- French: devoir
- German: schulden, schuldig sein
- Italian: dovere
- Portuguese: dever
- Russian: быть должен
- Spanish: deber, adeudar
- French: devoir
- German: schulden, schuldig sein
- Italian: dovere
- Portuguese: dever
- Russian: (predicative) до́лжен
- Spanish: estar en deuda, deber, adeudar
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