demean vs own

To mortify. 

To debase; to lower; to degrade. 

To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). 

To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. 

To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. 

To confess. 

To take responsibility for. 

To be very good. 

To virtually or figuratively enslave. 

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

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

To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. 

To admit; concede; acknowledge. 

To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of. 

To claim as one's own. 

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

To recognise; acknowledge.