The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word OWNED
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More clues leading to the result OWNED
- Had perished at sea, in doctor’s absence
- Admitted / being possessed
- Had garden worker put up fences
- Admitted being drunk, losing head
- Had put robe on
- Wife beset by heartless and capricious demon is possessed
- … had got drunk, taking top off
- Days after, wife is snatched by one possessed
- Admitted wearing dress, topless
- Had expressed disapproval following father’s departure
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What does OWNED mean?
OWNED verb- To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
- To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
- 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 grant; give.
- To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
- To admit; concede; acknowledge.
- To take responsibility for.
- To answer to.
- To recognise; acknowledge.
- To claim as one's own.
- To confess.