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Definition of owing

"owing" in the verb sense

1. owe

be obliged to pay or repay

2. owe

be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense

"This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory"

3. owe

be in debt

"She owes me $200"

"I still owe for the car"

"The thesis owes much to his adviser"

"owing" in the adjective sense

1. outstanding, owing, undischarged

owed as a debt

"outstanding bills"

"the amount still owed"

"undischarged debts"

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Quotations for owing

Sleep without supping, and wake without owing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A thrush paid for is better than a turkey owing for. [ Proverb ]

The second vice is lying, the first being that of owing money. [ Proverb ]

The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot. [ Dr. Johnson ]

All cares appear twice as large as they really are, owing to their emptiness and darkness; and so is it with the grave. [ Richter ]

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity. [ Hazlitt ]

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all. [ Emerson ]

Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. [ Richter ]

As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. [ E. Law ]

Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

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owing in Scrabble®

The word owing is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters owing:

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owing in Words With Friends™

The word owing is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words containing the sequence owing

Words that start with owing (1 word)

owing

Words with owing in them (23 words)

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Words that end with owing (124 words)

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Word Growth involving owing

Shorter words in owing

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Longer words containing owing

allowing fallowing

allowing reallowing

allowing sallowing disallowing

allowing shallowing

allowing tallowing

allowing unallowing

allowing wallowing swallowing reswallowing

bellowing outbellowing

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billowing billowings

blowing backblowing

blowing glassblowing

blowing mindblowing

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bowing elbowing

endowing overendowing

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flowing reflowing reflowings

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following followings

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glowing glowingly

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glowing reglowing

hollowing

knowing foreknowing foreknowingly

knowing knowingly foreknowingly

knowing knowingly unknowingly

knowing knowingness unknowingness

knowing knowings

knowing preknowing

knowing unknowing unknowingly

knowing unknowing unknowingness

mellowing

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rowing arrowing wheelbarrowing

rowing borrowing borrowings

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rowing crowing cockcrowing cockcrowings

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rowing growing woolgrowing woolgrowings

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shadowing foreshadowing foreshadowings

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towing stowing unstowing

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windowing multiwindowing

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