Possess is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POSSESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to have as an owner
• have as belonging to one; own
• have possession of as distinct from ownership
• have as an ability, quality, or characteristic
• (of a demon or spirit, especially an evil one) have complete power over (someone) and be manifested through their speech or actions
• (of an emotion, idea, etc.) dominate the mind of
• (of a man) have sexual intercourse with
• To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one\'s own keeping; to have and to hold.
• 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.
• To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.
• To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.
• 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.
• have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill
• have ownership or possession of
• enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas
• take for one's own
• maintain (oneself or one's mind or soul) in a state of patience or quiet
• have as one's property
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to have as property
• have as one\'s property

Words related to POSSESS

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Words that contain POSSESS

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How to use POSSESS in a sentence

• With such poor means as I possess I keep in touch with these gentlemen, and in them we have the rudiments of a frontier army.
• Never, in any time or in any latitude, has it been given him to possess his fellow, without fearful misfortunes having resulted to both.
• There are few intellectual accomplishments which he does not possess, and possess in a very high degree.
• I have acquired exact information respecting this country which I did not possess four months ago.
• Thus, without intending it, I came to possess a very interesting numismatical collection, which I most unconscientiously, but with little success, tried to scatter.
• The English race has yet to be explored and their now unknown wealth of hereditary gifts recorded, that those who possess such a patrimony should know of it.
• Our calamity, however, and sufferings, possess more dignity, and are associated with a greater work than that involved in the isolated sorrows of a single family.
• And each receives the dust of the footsteps of many men till comes the one who shall possess her.
• In order to furnish these needs or conditions the soil must possess certain characteristics or properties.
• I hope to receive soon permission to visit America this summer, and to possess myself anew, by conversation with my countrymen, of their spirit and their ideas.
• Accordingly, in his letter he simply expressed an opinion on our affairs with Spain, of which he knew we had better information than he could possess.
• The pods of later formation will still possess a yellow tint, and some of them may still possess the green color.
• THE RUSSIANS AND AUSTRIANS POSSESS THEMSELVES OF BERLIN.
• If already I possess so much, I may look with confidence to win more.
• Some feelings and emotions always possess every person.
• Many Whigs see before us a prospect of more power, and a better chance to serve the country, than we now possess.
• But nevertheless he would sooner possess her as his own wife than any other girl he had ever met.
• A vague terror began to possess her that things which could never possibly be were actually happening to her.
• The men, as yet, possess nothing but the fatigue uniforms they stand up in, so it is imperative to keep them dry.
• On occasion they may construct a bamboo raft, but they possess no boats of any description.
• Like all great public collections of men, you possess a marked love of virtue and an abhorrence of vice.

Similar words containing POSSES without suffix s

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