Associations to the word «Owe»

Wiktionary

OWE, verb. To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
OWE, verb. To have debt, to be in debt.
OWE SOMEONE ONE, verb. To be indebted to someone.

Dictionary definition

OWE, verb. Be obliged to pay or repay.
OWE, verb. Be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense; "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory".
OWE, verb. Be in debt; "She owes me $200"; "I still owe for the car"; "The thesis owes much to his adviser".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne