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ownverb to keep, control, or experience as one's ownwe own a modest house and an equally modest car command, enjoy, have, hold, possess, retain keep, reserve, withholdbear, carryboast, show off, sport rejoice in lack, want abandon, cede, disclaim, disown, hand over, relinquish, renounce, surrender, yielddiscard, dumpdecline, reject, repudiate, spurnneed, require acknowledge, admit, own, avow, confess mean to disclose against one's will or inclination.acknowledge implies the disclosing of something that has been or might be concealed.acknowledged an earlier peccadillo admit implies reluctance to disclose, grant, or concede and refers usually to facts rather than their implications.admitted the project was over budget own implies acknowledging something in close relation to oneself.must own I know little about computers avow implies boldly declaring, often in the face of hostility, what one might be expected to be silent about.avowed that he was a revolutionary confess may apply to an admission of a weakness, failure, omission, or guilt.confessed a weakness for sweets before the 12th century |