owe

Verb
  1. Be obliged to pay or repay (synset 202258963)
    subtypes: chalk up, run up - accumulate as a debt
  2. Be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense (synset 202737689)
    "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory"
    is a type of: build on, build upon, repose on, rest on - be based on; of theories and claims, for example
  3. Be in debt (synset 202258764)
    "She owes me $200"; "I still owe for the car"; "The thesis owes much to his adviser"
    is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
    subtypes: mortgage - put up as security or collateral

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