OWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does owing mean? 

• OWING (adjective)
  The adjective OWING has 1 sense:

1. owed as a debt

  Familiarity information: OWING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OWING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Owed as a debt

Synonyms:

outstanding; owing; undischarged

Context example:

undischarged debts

Similar:

unpaid (not paid)

 Context examples 

Alteration of the disposition and/or effect of a drug, owing to the presence of another factor such as a second drug, or food.

(Drug interaction, NCI Thesaurus)

You have saved my life: I have a pleasure in owing you so immense a debt.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Owing to some confusion in the dark, the door was gone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

H. alvei is found in water, soil and foods, is part of the gastrointestinal flora and is rarely pathogenic owing to the expression of few virulence factors.

(Hafnia alvei, NCI Thesaurus)

But owing to the flutter she was in, everything went amiss.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yet the king hath given me a living here in the southlands, and please God these two lads of mine will pay off a debt that hath been owing over long.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The life of my father is in the greatest danger, owing to the dreadful circumstance that I have related.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The old house of Cliffe Royal has been pulled down, owing to the terrible family associations which hung round it, and a beautiful modern building sprang up in its place.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The dinner too in its turn was highly admired; and he begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cooking was owing.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There was no woman whose sympathy could be given to him, or with whom, owing to the terrible circumstance with which his sorrow was surrounded, he could speak freely.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)