let go vs own

let go

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go. 

  • To dismiss from employment. 

  • To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on. 

  • To ignore (a comment, etc.). 

  • To emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation. 

  • To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance. 

  • To gain weight 

own

verb
  • To virtually or figuratively enslave. 

  • To confess. 

  • To take responsibility for. 

  • To be very good. 

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

  • To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Not shared. 

  • Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence. 

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