Phrase Hound found 1 phrases and 19 compound words that contain possess. The most common are listed below. Open possess in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 1
- adversely possessTo take ownership of (property) through the doctrine of adverse possession.
Compound words 19
- possessionA control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
- dispossessTo deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
- prepossessChiefly followed by by or with: to preoccupy (someone) in an emotional or mental way, so as to preclude other things.
- possesseeVerb complement in some languages or some constructions of a given language; the noun which is possessed.
- unpossessTo be without, or to resign, possession of.
- mispossessTo possess illicitly, as by theft.
- possessableThat can be possessed.
- possesseththird-person singular simple present indicative of possess: To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
- possessestsecond-person singular simple present indicative of possess
- possesstsimple past and past participle of possess