owe

Verb	1.	owe - be obliged to pay or repay chalk up, run up - accumulate as a debt; "he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening"
	2.	owe - be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense; "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory" build on, build upon, repose on, rest on - be based on; of theories and claims, for example; "What's this new evidence based on?"
	3.	owe - be in debt; "She owes me $200"; "The thesis owes much to his adviser" mortgage - put up as security or collateral be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

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