| privately |
| 1. adv. In a private manner. | |
| owned |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of own | |
| own |
| 1. v. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | |
| I own this car. | |
| 2. v. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. | |
| The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon. | |
| 3. v. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. | |
| I will own my enemies. | |
| If he wins, he will own you. | |
| 4. v. To virtually or figuratively enslave. | |
| 5. v. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn. | |
| 7. adj. Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence. | |
| They went that way, but we need to find our own. | |
| 8. adj. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic. | |
| 9. adj. (obsolete) Not foreign. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; give. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny. | |
| 12. v. To admit; concede; acknowledge. | |
| 13. v. To answer to. | |
| 14. v. To recognise; acknowledge. | |
| to own one as a son | |
| 15. v. To claim as one's own. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess. | |
