verb
- Have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill.
- usage: "he possesses great knowledge about the Middle East"
- synonyms: possess
- Have ownership or possession of.
- usage: "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have"
- Enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas.
- usage: "What possessed you to buy this house"; "A terrible rage possessed her"
- synonyms: possess
adjective
- Influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion.
- usage: "by love possessed"
- synonyms: obsessed
- Frenzied as if possessed by a demon.
- usage: "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"
- synonyms: amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal
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