Verb

: Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast 'and second-person singular past tense''' hadst''' or ' haddest .

To possess, own, hold.

I have a house and a car.

Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!

To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).

I have two sisters.

The dog down the street has a lax owner.

To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.

I have breakfast at six o'clock.

Can I have a look at that?

I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.

Used in forming the and the past perfect aspect.

I have already eaten today.

I had already eaten.

must.

I have to go.

Note: there's a separate entry for have to .

To give birth to.

The couple always wanted to have children.

My wife is having the baby right now!

To engage in sexual intercourse with.

He's always bragging about how many women he's had .

To accept as a romantic partner.

Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.

(transitive with bare infinitive ) To cause to, by a command or request.

They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To cause to be.

He had him arrested for trespassing.

The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.

(transitive with bare infinitive ) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)

The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.

I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To depict as being.

Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.

Anton Rogan, 8, was one of the runners-up in the Tick Tock Box short story competition, not Anton Rogers as we had it.'' — ''The Guardian .

Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below)

We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ?

Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ?

(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he ?

(British, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.

I could have him!

I'm gonna have you!

(Irish) To be able to speak a language.

I have no German .

To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.

To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative

He had a cold last week.

We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.

To trick, to deceive

You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.

(often with present participle) To allow

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2

"You're a very naughty boy. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. I won't have you chasing the geese!"

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

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*:And thenne he asked leue & wente oute of his heremytage for to mayntene his neuewe ageynst the myghty Erle / and so hit happed that this man that lyeth here dede dyd so moche by his wysedome and hardynes that the Erle was take and thre of his lordes by force of this dede man

To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

*, chapter=17

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 5, author=Phil Dawkes, work=BBC Sport

, title= QPR 2-3 Man City , passage=Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03, author=Nancy Langston, volume=101, issue=2, page=98

, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Mining the Boreal North , passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}

To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian

, title= Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , passage=She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."}}