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Synonyms for possess
pəˈzɛspos·sess
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
possess
Have is the most general word, and is applied to whatever belongs to or is connected with one; a man has a head or a head-ache, a fortune or an opinion, a friend or an enemy; he has time, or has need; he may be said to have what is his own, what he has borrowed, what has been entrusted to him, or what he has stolen. To possess a thing is to have the ownership with control and enjoyment of it. To hold is to have in one's hand, or securely in one's control; a man holds his friend's coat for a moment, or he holds a struggling horse; he holds a promissory note, or holds an office. To own is to have the right of property in; to possess is to have that right in actual exercise; to occupy is to have possession and use, with some degree of permanency, with or without ownership. A man occupies his own house or a room in a hotel; a man may own a farm of which he is not in possession because a tenant occupies it and is determined to hold it; the proprietor owns the property, but the tenant is in possession. To be in possession differs from possess in that to possess denotes both right and fact, while to be in possession denotes simply the fact with no affirmation as to the right. To have reason is to be endowed with the faculty; to be in possession of one's reason denotes that the faculty is in actual present exercise.
Synonyms:
be in possession of, be possessed of, have, hold, occupy, own
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
possessverb
have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill
"he possesses great knowledge about the Middle East"
own, have, possessverb
have ownership or possession of
"He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?"
Synonyms:
get, have, feature, deliver, suffer, accept, ingest, cause, experience, hold, let, sustain, give birth, take in, give, birth, receive, consume, own, take, throw, bear, have got, induce, make, stimulatepossessverb
enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas
"What possessed you to buy this house?"; "A terrible rage possessed her"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
possessverb
Synonyms:
own, have a title to, be seized ofpossessverb
possessverb
Synonyms:
put in possession
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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List of paraphrases for "possess":
possession, have, own, hold, possessed, possessing
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#26 | have | |
#77 | get | |
#132 | make | |
#246 | take | |
#294 | own | |
#543 | let | |
#555 | give | |
#566 | experience | |
#909 | receive | |
#1223 | cause | |
#1259 | feature | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1650 | enjoy | |
#1893 | accept | |
#2223 | birth | |
#2490 | bear | |
#3338 | deliver | |
#4404 | throw | |
#6648 | possession | |
#6848 | suffer | |
#9542 | possess | |
#11256 | sustain | |
#12747 | stimulate | |
#13640 | consume | |
#14008 | entertain | |
#14129 | induce | |
#15104 | possessed | |
#15899 | occupy | |
#22119 | possessing | |
#48993 | ingest |
How to use possess in a sentence?
This generation may possess the ability to get out of the box, it's up to the next generation to build a better box.
Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
Desiring something that you cannot possess is but a fruitless voyage.
He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
Translations for possess
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- تملك, امتلك, ملكArabic
- posseïrCatalan, Valencian
- vlastnit, posednoutCzech
- besidde, eje, besætteDanish
- besitzenGerman
- posedi, haviEsperanto
- poseerSpanish
- داشتنPersian
- [[ottaa]] [[valtaansa]], omistaaFinnish
- posséder, s'emparer deFrench
- अधिकारीHindi
- hatalmába kerít, birtokol, van, bírHungarian
- 支配, 取り憑く, 占有, 所持, 所有Japanese
- ფლობსGeorgian
- possideo, habeo, teneoLatin
- innehaNorwegian
- opętać, posiadaćPolish
- possuirPortuguese
- poseda, avea, dețineRomanian
- обладать, владеть, иметьRussian
- பெற்றிருக்கவில்லைTamil
- sahip olmakTurkish
- کے پاسUrdu
- sở hữuVietnamese
- 具备Chinese
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