Dictionary
have
Meaning
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- To possess, own.
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- See have to.
- To give birth to.
- (informal) To obtain.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- To depict as being.
- (slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
- (slang) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- (informal) To trick, to deceive.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.
- To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/hæv/
Cognate with Latin
habeō
Cognate with Western Frisian
hawwe
Cognate with Dutch
hebben
Cognate with Afrikaans
hê
Cognate with German
haben
Cognate with Latin
capiō
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