owns

To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.

“I own this car.”

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.”

To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

“I will own my enemies.”

To virtually or figuratively enslave.

To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.

To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.

To grant; give.

To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

To admit; concede; acknowledge.

To take responsibility for.

To answer to.

To recognise; acknowledge.

“to own one as a son”

To claim as one's own.

To confess.