Synonyms for owe
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1. owe

   Synonyms:
   borrow, hypothecate, attribute

   Antonyms:
   requite, repay, liquidate, defray

Princeton's WordNet

1. oweverb

   be obliged to pay or repay

2. oweverb

   be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense

   "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory"

3. oweverb

   be in debt

   "She owes me $200"; "I still owe for the car"; "The thesis owes much to his adviser"

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1. debt

   something, typically money, that is owed or due.

   i am not in debt anymore!

   Submitted by JP03 on October 27, 2014  

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1. oweverb

   Synonyms:
   be indebted to, be bound to pay

2. oweverb

   Synonyms:
   be obliged to ascribe to, be obliged for, have to attribute to

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1. List of paraphrases for "owe":

   gotta, must

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1. Brenda Scott:

   The struggle continues, i don’t think The UAW should just pack up and move out of here. … I think we owe The UAW to The UAW to not walk away. … Nissan is going to go right back to business as usual.

2. Donald Lindsey:

   We recognize our responsibility to offer more than just words, we owe it to the families impacted (by the Vale disaster) and to our stakeholders to take meaningful action.

3. Walter Scott:

   If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

4. European Commission:

   The choice is clear, it is this deal, or #Brexit may not happen at all. Let's bring the UK's withdrawal to an orderly end. We owe it to history.

5. John Coates:

   We owe it to the people of Tokyo to make sure they are fully briefed.