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owe

/oh/US // oʊ //UK // (əʊ) //

欠下的,欠的,欠了,欠债

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    owed, ow·ing.

    • : to be under obligation to pay or repay: to owe money to the bank; to owe the bank interest on a mortgage.
    • : to be in debt to: He says he doesn't owe anybody.
    • : to be indebted as the cause or source of: to owe one's fame to good fortune.
    • : to have or bear toward someone or something: to owe gratitude to one's rescuers.
    • : Obsolete. to possess; own.
v.无主动词 verb
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    owed, ow·ing.

    • : to be in debt: Neither lend nor owe. Who owes for the antipasto?

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Examples

  • The Dodgers also owe him $62 million more for ’22 and ’23, but Bauer can opt out after either season if he is so magnificent that he can get a better offer.

  • They may be owed refunds or have challenged a tax liability.

  • They could only see the top of the person’s face, owing to a coronavirus mask, but said in court records that it was enough to appear similar to Cline’s federal probation photo and bank surveillance images.

  • Then, owing to the whoever-cooks-doesn't-clean-up rule, I'm left with a tremendous mess to deal with.

  • The uncomfortable truth is that the United States owes its position as the most powerful nation in the world to its slave-owning past.

  • That they got one may owe something to the organization's political connections.

  • How does the world owe you a private car, priced as you deem acceptable, that didn't exist five years ago?

  • So I tweet things like "you don't owe white people any convos" to support others.

  • "It's almost like black folks think white folks owe them something," Bundy whines.

  • We exclude Catholics because they owe allegiance to an institution that is foreign to the Government of the United States.

  • I will go instantly to my father; tell him we owe our lives to you—and that will be quite sufficient.

  • I owe you a large debt of gratitude, which I want to work out—so do not talk of sending me away.

  • Servants should honour their masters by showing that respect, and rendering that obedience, which they owe to them.

  • It is divided throughout its whole extent by a chain of mountains, which in general owe their formation to volcanic eruptions.

  • It's wretched enough to owe money to anybody, but I'd have felt safer if we'd borrowed from Mrs. Calvert or even from a bank.