To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
I own this car.
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.
To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
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.
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.
to own one as a son
To claim as one's own.
To confess.