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. Richard Nixon:

   Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

2. Harald Hampel:

   Alzheimer's disease is a complex disease, the newest weapon in the fight against Alzheimer's disease might be your own body.

3. Lindsey Graham:

   Here's what I would say to my colleagues: Come up with a plan of your own. I've given you very detailed plans. We need a ground component. Part of it has to be an American ground component or we're going to get hit here at home.

4. Judge Robert Juckes:

   It is an extraordinary thing, in this case, that not one of you, most of whom have no previous convictions, most of whom with families of your own, at any stage stood back and asked the question of yourself and others, What are we doing?

5. Joe Biden:

   We talk like. There’s no amendment that’s absolute, when the amendment was passed it didn’t say anybody can own a gun, any kind of gun, and any kind of weapon. You couldn’t buy a cannon when this amendment was passed so there’s no reason why you should be able to buy certain assault weapons. But that’s another issue.