owe
(verb)
verb
1. be obliged to pay or repay
Definition categories: possession
2. be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense
- This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory
Definition categories: stative
3. be in debt
- She owes me $200
- I still owe for the car
- The thesis owes much to his adviser
Definition categories: possession, be