<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive):<ul><li>Example: He spent only his own money.</li></ul></li><li>Used as an intensifier to indicate oneself as the sole agent of some activity or action, preceded by a possessive:<ul><li>Example: He insists on being his own doctor.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>To have or hold as one's own; possess:<ul><li>Example: They own several homes.</li></ul></li><li>To acknowledge or admit:<ul><li>Example: To own a fault.</li></ul></li><li>To acknowledge as one's own; recognize as having full claim, authority, power, dominion, etc.:<ul><li>Example: He owned his child before the entire assembly.</li><li>Example: They owned the king as their lord.</li></ul></li><li>To totally defeat, gain control over, or dominate in a competition:<ul><li>Example: I totally owned the last two levels of the game.</li><li>Example: He owned the season from beginning to end and took the world title.</li></ul></li><li>To take over a computer system, program, or computer without authorization:<ul><li>Example: The network has been owned by a hacker.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>To confess (often followed by to, up, or up to):<ul><li>Example: The one who did it had better own up.</li><li>Example: I own to being uncertain about that.</li></ul></li></ul>