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US
/pəˈzɛst/
]
[ UK /pəzˈɛst/ ]
[ UK /pəzˈɛst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion
by love possessed - of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon
How To Use possessed In A Sentence
- a good deal of comfort in the fact as she sold 7-Cs at $22.50 a pair to behemothian damsels who possessed money in proportion to Myra's beauty. Gigolo
- An Iron Ancestor is a reanimated and iron - forged dead body possessed by a ghost.
- It then possessed 39 aircraft, 52 seaplanes, and 7 airships.
- The years of youth are given to us only once by the Creator, to be treasured while possessed.
- Jackson Starfield is possessed of the most rock'n'roll name in town and a nice feral howl to match.
- When asked who was to blame for all the possessed girls she responded, ‘The devil for aught I know.’
- He is a slightly possessed, haunted, eccentric man; his enemies prefer to say ' insane '.
- They lived under nine independent caciques or chiefs, and possessed a simple religion devoid of rites and ceremonies, but with a belief in a supreme being, and the immortality of the soul.
- Tanning experiments carried out with the chromium, iron, aluminium, and calcium salts of Ordoval G yielded leathers which possessed proportionate characteristics of either kind of tannage to the extent to which either material was present. Synthetic Tannins
- To have shown it to her husband would have been her first impulse; but, besides that he was absent from home, and the matter too delicate to be the subject of correspondence by an indifferent penwoman, Mrs. Butler recollected that he was not possessed of the information necessary to form a judgment upon the occasion; and that, adhering to the rule which she had considered as most advisable, she had best transmit the information immediately to her sister, and leave her to adjust with her husband the mode in which they should avail themselves of it. The Heart of Mid-Lothian