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Possess (IPA: /pəˈzɛs/)

Possess (v. t.)

To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.

Possess (v. t.)

To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.

Possess (v. t.)

To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.

Possess (v. t.)

To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.

Possess (v. t.)

To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.

Posse

Italian music term

Posse

1993 film by Mario Van Peebles

Posse

Single

Posse

1975 film by Kirk Douglas

Posse

Municipality of Brazil

Possess Synonyms

Own, Have

Possess Rhymes

Bess, Besse, Bless, Bress, Bresse, Ches, Chess, Cress, Crests, Dress, Es, Ess, Esse, Fess, Fests, Gess, Gless, Gress, Guess, Guests', Guests, Hess, Hesse, Jess, Kess, Kless, Kness, Kress, Kresse, Les, Less, Mess, Nes, Ness, Pesce, Pless, Press, Press', Presse, Ques, Ress, S, S., Stress, Tess, Tress, Vess, Wes, Yes

Address, Aggress, Assess, Attests, Bequests, Caress, Compress, Confess, Contests, Depress, Digests, Digress, Distress, Divests, Egress, Ellesse, Etess, Excess, Express, Express', Finesse, Fluoresce, Forbess, Fs, Impress, Infests, Invests, L'express, Largesse, Ls, Lutece, Lyness, Molests, Noblesse, Obsess, Oppress, Possess, Profess, Progress, Protests, Recess, Redress, Regress, Repress, Requests, Retests, Siese, Simplesse, Success, Suggests, Suppress, Transgress, Ts, Undress, Unless, Us, Vs

Abs, Acquiesce, Ccs, Coalesce, Convalesce, Cps, Cus, Dispossess, Dss, Ers, Ins, Las, Lcs, Nonetheless, Oas, Pos, Reassess, Reinvests, Repossess, Uss, Uys

Abts, Adss, Cmos, Hces, Kjos, Nevertheless, Stds, Tcas, Ws

Spanish Translation

Possess in Spanish is Poseer

Tagalog Translation

Possess in Tagalog is Ariin

Example Sentence (Quote) " Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it." - Quality

Example Sentence (Quote) "An artist must possess consummate technique in order to make us forget it." - Auguste Rodin

Example Sentence (Quote) " And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul Before we die." - Soul

Example Sentence (Quote) " Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Sanskrit learning." - Mahatma Gandhi

Example Sentence (Quote) "He does not possess Wealth, it possesses him." - Poor Richard's Almanack

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