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Possessed Pronunciation

Pronounce Possessed as P OW S S EH S S EH D.

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    Possessed phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'possessed'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of possessed: /poʊssɛssɛd/
    • Modern IPA representation of possessed: /pɒssɛssɛd/

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    List of meaning for possessed

    akin to being controlled by an evil spirit; often to refer to a frenzied person

    obsessed, possessed(p)(adj)

    influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion

    "by love possessed"

    amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed(p)(adj)

    frenzied as if possessed by a demon

    "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"

    free from emotional or mental agitation

    remarkably poised and possessed in the midst of all the turmoil

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    possessed in sentence

    1. Acting as an exorcist, the priest believed he could throw holy water on the possessed woman to heal her.

    2. I wouldn’t say that I hate winter, but I’ve always possessed a minor distaste for the cold and the biting wind.

    3. A natural athlete, Brett possessed a natural skillfulness for most sports and was an especially capable baseball player.

    4. As though possessed by a demon, the raving lunatic leaped off the bridge and into the water below to escape the people trying to aid him.

    5. Albert Einstein possessed a truly fabulous intellect, having discovered so many critical aspects of how our world functions.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term possessed

    The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected.

    – Ulysses S. Grant

    We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

    – Aldous Huxley

    Two persons die remorseful: he who possessed and enjoyed not, and he who knew but did not practise.

    – Saadi Shirazi

    There is a substantial amount of information that they possessed that corroborates the fact that I am telling the truth.

    – Michael Cohen

    Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

    – Socrates

    Though [Theophanu] was of the weak sex she possessed moderation, trustworthiness, and good manners. In this way she protected with male vigilance the royal power for her son, friendly with all those who were honest, but with terrifying superiority against rebels.

    – Thietmar of Merseburg

    What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with this as the foremost object ideas of freedom and self-reliance and service to the community were obscured to the point of disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a co-operative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share. Athens had reached the point of rejecting independence, and the freedom she now wanted was freedom from responsibility. There could be only one result. If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.

    – Edith Hamilton

    I think a lot of these people who over promise and imagine that they can do things well beyond what anybody else has done so far, they are possessed of a certain delusional quality — a certain kind of narcissistic belief in their own powers, that's become, in a way, kind of my stock and trade : to examine those characters,'cause there's something glorious about that.

    – Alex Gibney

    The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

    – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)

    Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.

    – Octavio Paz

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