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owe

verb US /oʊ/

be obliged to pay or repay

How often you will meet it

Rank 2,500 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,807 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.

What it means

verb

  1. be obliged to pay or repay
  2. be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory
  3. be in debt She owes me $200I still owe for the car

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

owe in real books

Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.

  • Remember! we owe something to your husband.

    How He Lied to Her Husband · Bernard Shaw · Chapter 1

  • And by the way, Father, you owe us an extra Ourday.

    Marjorie's Maytime · Carolyn Wells · Chapter 1

  • I shall repair my follies: what I owe, I shall pay.

    Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1

  • Doubtless they owe some of that for their mother's funeral and their own mourning.

    The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls · L. T. Meade · Chapter 2

  • We owe our thanks to the Rev. E. Warre, of Eton College, for certain corrections on nautical points.

    The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1

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