Word Finder - possessed

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To have; to have ownership of.

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He does not even possess a working telephone.

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To take control of someone's body or mind, especially in a supernatural manner.

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They thought he was possessed by evil spirits.

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(chiefly with of) To vest ownership in (someone, or oneself); to give someone power or knowledge; to acquaint; to inform.

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Controlled by evil spirits.

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He was exorcised because he was thought to be possessed by the Devil.

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Seized by powerful emotions.

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(construed with of) Having; owning.

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The president was possessed of great wealth.

Jackson possessed a true passion for music.

As Sarah predicted, he possessed incredible self-control.

As dawn broke across the sky, the elder demon who possessed Memon spoke to him.

Now we knew we possessed an incredible tool at our fingertips.

If she possessed a smile, she never presented it for public display.

She possessed a head of coal black hair, tied in a single braid that extended below her waist, dark eyes, and a smile that lit up the room.

She twisted to face the direction from which it had come, expecting to see Gabriel.  Nothing was there.  The jungle around her fell suddenly still, and the possessed branches stopped in place, as if watching her.

Fred possessed a full head of snow-white hair, carried himself ramrod straight and was a familiar sight and well-liked figure about town.

I don't know what possessed them to freeze us.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

His sword defended him as if possessed, yet when he went to strike, he found his blows ill timed and clumsy.

Jackson stood dumbstruck; amazed the newborn possessed such control.

With every scrap of will power she possessed, she resisted the urge to help him with the buttons.

Part of me was hesitant to answer but something in the old man's voice gave me confidence he possessed no untoward ambitions.

Neither Daniel Brennan nor Merrill Cooms possessed that information.

His eyes turned black, fathomless, and she knew whatever creature possessed the human body was loosening its grip on its powers.

Regardless of how irresponsible the woman was, she presumably possessed natural maternal instincts for her child.

The room of the Sanctuary where he materialized consisted of nothing more than a lectern holding a massive book possessed by a long-dead Oracle.

While he possessed sufficient strength to pull away, he was fearful of hurting her, and even more so, of her crying out.

Men seeing the nature of this man like that of the brute, think that he has never possessed the innate faculty of reason.

One sentiment, fear for his life, possessed his whole being.

He hadn't thought it as harsh as it was, just like he thought nothing of killing anything in his path, but seeing the look on a normal human's face reminded him he'd been close to losing what humanity he possessed for quite a while.

He had no idea if he possessed the strength to stop his fall once the loosened slack had expired.

Either his words or his soothing voice caused the woman to abandon what little self-control she possessed; she threw her arms around him, sobbing.

She possessed a regal countenance and carried herself with an easy grace.

Dean hoped it was simply from force of habit, not because he possessed information he wasn't sharing.

What she possessed in exuberance, she lacked in coordination, though.

He didn't know what magic she possessed, but it was unlike anything he'd ever seen.

The possessed king snapped out of his thoughts and looked around.

Sirian's knowledge of what happened when two demons possessed one host was not one he would dare share.

Indeed both necromancer and the spirit that possessed him were sometimes identified, and the former was simply called obh.

He was, however, an admirable tactician, a consummate knight, and he possessed extraordinary vigour and energy of temperament.

Nothing in life seemed to him of much importance, and under the influence of the depression that possessed him he valued neither his liberty nor his resolution to punish his wife.

And those thoughts, though now vague and indefinite, again possessed his soul.

The source of that extraordinary power of penetrating the meaning of the events then occuring lay in the national feeling which he possessed in full purity and strength.

She was taller than Howie but rail thin and possessed an engaging smile, long blond hair and arresting blue eyes.

While he yearned to return to New Hampshire I sensed he possessed a strong guilt, locking him to his mother's bedside.

She possessed an "outie" navel that looked like a cherry tomato had dropped down her too-tight tee shirt and landed on the top of the hill.

She possessed promising coordination and ability to learn at least the basics of the warrior's trade, skills no other nishani had ever needed.

However, Dean possessed no cogent thoughts on what to do with this new information.

Avoiding the possessed king, Taran took his place directing the great hall's activities.

The milk of the cow, which may be taken as typical of all others, and is indeed by far the most important and valuable of all, is, when newly drawn, an opaque white fluid, with a yellowish tinge, soft, bland and sweetish to the taste, and possessed of a faintly animal odour.

In the time of Edward the Confessor, Rotherham possessed a market and a church.

In his brother Wladislaus, who as king of Hungary and Bohemia possessed a dominant influence in Central Europe, he found a counterpoise to the machinations of the emperor Maximilian, who in 1492 had concluded an alliance against him with Ivan III.

His troops were raw and possessed no decisive superiority in numbers, and sharp fighting took place when the garrison of Donelson tried to cut its way out.

Meade, who, besides steadiness and ability, possessed the confidence of Lincoln and Halleck which Hooker had lacked.

But he had at least shown that he possessed to an unusual degree the real attribute of a great captain - power over men.

The family was greatly impoverished owing to his losses over these schemes, but still possessed a good deal of interest.

For instance, at starting, it will not be enough for us simply to tell the story how the Books of the New Testament came to be written, but we shall have to point out what there was about them which fitted them to be what they afterwards became, what inherent qualities they possessed which suggested the estimate ultimately put upon them; in others words, how they came to be not only a collection of Christian books, but a collection of Christian sacred books, or part of a Bible.

His father, James Chalmers, was a grandson of George Chalmers of Pittensear, a small estate in the parish of Lhanbryde, now St Andrews-Lhanbryde, in the same county, possessed by the main line of the family from about the beginning of the 17th to the middle of the 18th century.