be obliged to pay or repay
be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense
"This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory"
be in debt
"She owes me $200"
"I still owe for the car"
"The thesis owes much to his adviser"
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owed
You owed me a sheep but paid me a lamb. [ Proverb ]
The devil hath owed me a cake of a long time, and now hath paid me a loaf. [ Proverb ]
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. [ Charlotte Cushman ]
Socrates, who is by all accounts the undoubted head of the sect of the hen-pecked, owed, and acknowledged that he owed a great part of his virtue to the exercise his useful wife constantly gave him. [ Steele ]
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies' wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn-door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. [ Samuel Smiles ]
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