owe
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
be obliged to pay or repay
Types & categories
- chalk up hyponym
Sense 2 verb
be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense
This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory
Types & categories
- repose on hypernym
Sense 3 verb
be in debt
She owes me $200
Types & categories
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | chalk up |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | repose on |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | mortgage |