Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to own up
Participle: owned up
Gerund: owning up
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | own up |
| you | own up |
| he;she;it | owns up |
| we | own up |
| you | own up |
| they | own up |
Perfect
| I | have owned up |
| you | have owned up |
| he;she;it | has owned up |
| we | have owned up |
| you | have owned up |
| they | have owned up |
Past
| I | owned up |
| you | owned up |
| he;she;it | owned up |
| we | owned up |
| you | owned up |
| they | owned up |
Pluperfect
| I | had owned up |
| you | had owned up |
| he;she;it | had owned up |
| we | had owned up |
| you | had owned up |
| they | had owned up |
Future
| I | will own up |
| you | will own up |
| he;she;it | will own up |
| we | will own up |
| you | will own up |
| they | will own up |
Future Perfect
| I | will have owned up |
| you | will have owned up |
| he;she;it | will have owned up |
| we | will have owned up |
| you | will have owned up |
| they | will have owned up |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | own up |
| you | own up |
| he;she;it | own up |
| we | own up |
| you | own up |
| they | own up |
Perfect
| I | have owned up |
| you | have owned up |
| he;she;it | have owned up |
| we | have owned up |
| you | have owned up |
| they | have owned up |
Imperfect
| I | owned up |
| you | owned up |
| he;she;it | owned up |
| we | owned up |
| you | owned up |
| they | owned up |
Pluperfect
| I | had owned up |
| you | had owned up |
| he;she;it | had owned up |
| we | had owned up |
| you | had owned up |
| they | had owned up |
Conditional
Present
| I | would own up |
| you | would own up |
| he;she;it | would own up |
| we | would own up |
| you | would own up |
| they | would own up |
Perfect
| I | would have owned up |
| you | would have owned up |
| he;she;it | would have owned up |
| we | would have owned up |
| you | would have owned up |
| they | would have owned up |
Imperative
| you | own up |
| we | Let's own up |
| you | own up |
Verbs conjugated like 'own'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'own'
down,
gown,
on,
orn,
owe,
owl,
rown,
awe,
aww,
ban,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- have rightful possession of
- possess
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
- to have ownership of
- have, hold, possess
- to admit to the truth
- acknowledge, admit, assent, avow, beknow, come clean, concede, confess, fess, fess up, front up, make a clean breast, own up, shrive, sing, spill one's guts, spill the beans, step forward, talk, tell all, unbosom
- possess
- have, enjoy, hold, control, dominate, boast, reserve, retain
- admit
- acknowledge, grant, allow, declare, avow, concede, confess
Antonyms
- possess
- lose, surrender, forfeit, resign
- admit
- deny, disavow, dispute, dissent
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
agen "one's own," lit. "possessed by," from P.Gmc.
*aigana- "possessed, owned" (cf. O.S.
egan, O.Fris.
egin, O.N.
eiginn, Du.
eigen, Ger.
eigen "own"), from pp. of PIE
*aik- "to be master of, possess," source of O.E.
agan "to have" (see owe).
2. A back-formation from owner. Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna. See: Dutch '
eigenen', German, old spelling '
eignen', Swedish '
ägna'.
Verbs referencing "own"
Danish
eje, Norwegian, nynorsk
unna, German, old spelling
eignen, Swedish
ägna, Sanskrit
ईष्टे.
Sample Sentences
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“ And this wretch owns that good, faithful Tom, and Eliza's child ! ” “ Well, my dear, the fact is that this goes rather hard with me; it's a thing I hate to think of. Haley wants to drive matters, and take possession [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] that for ? ” said mine host. “ I'd do it all the same to the writer of that ar paper, if he was here, ” said the long man, coolly resuming his old employment of cutting tobacco. “ Any man that owns a boy like that, and can't find any better way o ’ treating on him, _deserves_ to lose him. Such papers as these is a shame to Kentucky; that's my mind right out, if anybody wants to know ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The boys addressed responded the invariable “ Yes, Mas’r, ” for ages the watchword of poor Africa; but it's to be owned they did not look particularly cheerful; they had their various little prejudices in favor of wives, mothers, sisters, and children, seen for the last time,—and though “ they that wasted them [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] the natural tendency, and the other where everything acted for it; and so one turned out a pretty wilful, stout, overbearing old democrat, and the other a wilful, stout old despot. If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] of indignation that belongs to the thorough-paced housekeeper, and this had been pretty actively roused by the artifice and wastefulness of the child; in fact, many of my lady readers must own that they should have felt just so in her circumstances; but Marie's words went beyond her, and she felt less heat.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Her master is Mr. Legree, who owns a cotton plantation on the Red River. She is pushed along into the same lot with Tom and two other men, and goes off, weeping as she goes.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ It was on his grave, my friends, that I resolved, before God, that I would never own another slave, while it was possible to free him; that nobody, through me, should ever run the risk of being parted from home and friends, and dying on a lonely plantation, as he died. So, when you [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] her, and smote her with death. There were two girls named Edmundson in the same company. When about to be sent to the same market, an older sister went to the shambles, to plead with the wretch who owned them, for the love of God, to spare his victims. He bantered her, telling what fine dresses and fine furniture they would have. ‘Yes, ’ she said, ‘that may do very well in this life, but what will [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] body; the sons of the free states would not, as they do, trade the souls and bodies of men as an equivalent to money, in their mercantile dealings. There are multitudes of slaves temporarily owned, and sold again, by merchants in northern cities; and shall the whole guilt or obloquy of slavery fall only on the South ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ C — —. Full black; stolen from Africa; sold in New Orleans; been free fifteen years; paid for himself six hundred dollars; a farmer; owns several farms in Indiana; Presbyterian; probably worth fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, all earned by himself.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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♪ Vizag to Hong Kong I own the map lifelong ♪ ♪ I am the don who rules the sea I am the lord, you are my lackey ♪
(Magudam)
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♪ He likes to pickle his foe with salt and spice gung-ho ♪ ♪ Vizag to Hong Kong I own the map lifelong ♪
(Magudam)