owe

Definition

  • v. be obliged to pay or repay
  • v. be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense
  • v. be in debt

Word forms

Present participle
owing
Past tense
owed
Third person singular
owes
Past participle
owed

Example sentences

  1. vt.

    I owe my success to my supportive family.

  2. vi.

    I still owe my friend twenty dollars.