possessed

IPA: pʌzˈɛst

adjective

  • controlled by evil spirits.
  • Seized by powerful emotions.
  • (not comparable) Followed by of: having; owning.
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Examples of "possessed" in Sentences

  • Could Earth have once possessed a high obliquity
  • The former work of the same title possessed the same kind of merit.
  • We don't like to use the word possessed because that means they don't have any power of their own.
  • A young Winston Churchill wrote his first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, about his experiences fighting those tribes, whom he described as possessed of a “wild and merciless fanaticism.”
  • "Parents have used the word 'possessed,' " says Susan Swedo , chief of pediatrics and developmental neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental Health who first made the connection to strep in the mid-1990s.
  • One of the requisite job skills for a head waiter in a high class Austrian restaurant is being intimately familiar with the title possessed by every regular customer, and most occasional customers, of said restaurant.
  • Sat 10/31/09 11: 42 AM theatre version - katie disappears downstairs, screams for micah, who runs down … there is an obvious struggle .. then silence .. then sounds of heavy footsteps coming back upstairs. micah is thrown into the room very suddenly, then katie walks in possessed, all jerky walking, and then lunges at the camera – goes black.

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