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. Gina Raimondo:

   It is unacceptable that our children are growing up in a country where they have to worry about gun violence. This is one of the most disturbing and preventable public health crises of this generation, and we owe it to our children to take action.

2. Roger Hanshaw:

   We owe it to ourselves; we owe it our constituents; we owe it to the men and women and children and families that we represent to do better than we are, we have allowed national level politics to become a cancer on our state, to become a cancer on our legislature, to invade our chamber in a way that frankly makes me ashamed.

3. European Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici:

   The Commission feels it's time to establish fiscal equity, so that companies pay what they owe, their fair share to the right place, there will be no escape clause and no room for interpretation on these requirements. It will be simple. It's automatic.

4. Swami Krishnananda:

   The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

5. Diane Bailey:

   In my mind, he didn't owe anything, i owed the money, the parents, the school district.