lick vs own

lick

verb
  • To overcome. 

  • To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight. 

  • To do anything partially. 

  • To lap; to take in with the tongue. 

  • To lap. 

  • To perform cunnilingus. 

  • To beat with repeated blows. 

  • To stroke with the tongue. 

noun
  • An attempt at something. 

  • A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream. 

  • An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks 

  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue. 

  • The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue. 

  • A place where animals lick minerals from the ground. 

  • The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick. 

  • A small amount; a whit. 

  • A short motif. 

  • A stroke or blow. 

  • A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.) 

  • An act of cunnilingus. 

own

verb
  • 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. 

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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