Synonyms for own
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1. own1

   Belonging to; possessed; proper to;

   I own this car.

   Synonyms:
   possess

2. own1

   To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

   Synonyms:
   defeat, overcome, have, take, overthrow, best, beat, vanquish

3. own1

   To admit to be true; concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny; to admit to be true. (Ref 2)

   Synonyms:
   confess, acknowledge, allow

4. own1

   Synonyms:
   responsible, responsibility

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1. own

   Acknowledge, admit, and declare refer either to oneself or to others; all the other words refer only to one's own knowledge or action. To avow is to declare boldly and openly, commonly as something one is ready to justify, maintain, or defend. A man acknowledges another's claim or his own promise; he admits an opponent's advantage or his own error; he declares either what he has seen or experienced or what he has received from another; he avers what he is sure of from his own knowledge or consciousness; he gives his assurance as the voucher for what he avouches; he avows openly a belief or intention that he has silently held. Avow and avouch take a direct object; aver is followed by a conjunction: a man avows his faith, avouches a deed, avers that he was present. Avow has usually a good sense; what a person avows he at least does not treat as blameworthy, criminal, or shameful; if he did, he would be said to confess it; yet there is always the suggestion that some will be ready to challenge or censure what one avows; as, the clergyman avowed his dissent from the doctrine of his church. Own applies to all things, good or bad, great or small, which one takes as his own. Compare CONFESS; STATE.

   Synonyms:
   admit, aver, avouch, avow, confess, declare, knowledge, proclaim, profess, protest, testify, witness

   Antonyms:
   contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, ignore, repudiate

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1. own

   Synonyms:
   possess, hold, have, acknowledge, avow, admit, confess

   Antonyms:
   alienate, forfeit, lose, disclaim, disavow, disinherit, disown, abjure, abandon

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. own(a), ainverb

   belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive

   "for your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish"

   Antonyms:
   impersonal

2. own, have, possessverb

   have ownership or possession of

   "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?"

   Synonyms:
   get, have, feature, deliver, suffer, accept, ingest, cause, experience, hold, let, sustain, give birth, take in, give, birth, receive, consume, possess, take, throw, bear, have got, induce, make, stimulate

   Antonyms:
   impersonal

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1. ownverb

   Synonyms:
   possess, hold, have, be in possession of, have a title to

2. ownverb

   Synonyms:
   acknowledge, confess, avow, allow, admit

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1. ownverb

   Synonyms:
   admit, acknowledge, confess, allow, concede, grant, possess

   Antonyms:
   disown, deny

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1. List of paraphrases for "own":

   clean, specific, same, personal, respective, unique, possess, himself, peculiar, proper, special, alone, only, very, inherent, separate, cleaner

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1. Mitch McConnell:

   Of course, that is utter nonsense, this is Biden's inflation and he needs to own the White House.

2. President Biden:

   We gave them the chance to determine their own future, what we could not provide them was the will to fight for that future.

3. Robert Frost:

   A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

4. Banani Ray:

   No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are.

5. D. J. Hicks:

   Paranoids are people, too they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.