The difference between Defeat and Own
When used as verbs, defeat means to overcome in battle or contest, whereas own means to have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital).
Defeat is also noun with the meaning: the act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
Own is also adjective with the meaning: belonging to.
check bellow for the other definitions of Defeat and Own
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Defeat as a verb (transitive):
To overcome in battle or contest.
Examples:
"Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo."
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Defeat as a verb (transitive):
To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
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Defeat as a verb (transitive):
To nullify
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Defeat as a noun:
The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
Examples:
"The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war."
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Defeat as a noun:
The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
Examples:
"Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move."
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Defeat as a noun (legal):
Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; nullification.
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Defeat as a noun (obsolete):
Destruction, ruin.
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
Examples:
"I own this car."
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
Examples:
"The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon."
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
Examples:
"I will own my enemies."
"If he wins, he will own you."
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To virtually or figuratively enslave.
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Own as a verb (online gaming, slang):
To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled .
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Own as a verb (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.
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Own as an adjective:
Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
Examples:
"They went that way, but we need to find our own."
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Own as an adjective (obsolete):
Peculiar, domestic.
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Own as an adjective (obsolete):
Not foreign.
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Own as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To grant; give.
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Own as a verb (intransitive):
To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To admit; concede; acknowledge.
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To answer to.
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To recognise; acknowledge.
Examples:
"to own one as a son"
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To claim as one's own.
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Own as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):
To confess.