[
US
/pəˈzɛst/
]
[ UK /pəzˈɛst/ ]
[ UK /pəzˈɛst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
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
- The blue eyes into which Betty turned to look were honest, too, and the shock of tow-colored hair and the half-embarrassed grin that displayed a set of uneven, white teeth instantly prepossessed the girl in favor of the speaker.
- 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