owe

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

verb

1. be obliged to pay or repay (Freq. 11)
• Hyponyms:
chalk up, run up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
2. be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense (Freq. 5)
- This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory
• Hypernyms:
repose on, rest on, build on, build upon
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
- Somebody ----s something PP
3. be in debt (Freq. 3)
- She owes me $200
- I still owe for the car
- The thesis owes much to his adviser
• Hypernyms:
be
• Hyponyms:
mortgage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
- They owe the money to them
- They owe them the money