معنى كلمة possess | الترجمة والشرح والأمثلة

معنى كلمة possess بالعربي

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النطق: /pəˈzɛs/ | /pəˈzes/

نوع الكلمة: verb

مستوى الكلمة: B1

possess

To possess something is to have it or own it.

My uncle possesses three sheep, a chicken, a cow and a dog.

He does not even possess a working telephone.
For men being generally poſſeſſed before the time of our Saviour, […] of an opinion, that the Souls of men were ſubſtances diſtinct from their Bodies, and therefore that when the Body was dead, the Soule of every man, whether godly, or wicked, muſt ſubſiſt ſomewhere by vertue of its own nature, without acknowledging therein any ſupernaturall gift of Gods; the Doctors of the Church doubted a long time, what was the place, which they were to abide in, till they ſhould be re-united to their Bodies in the Reſurrection; […]
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds, which hardly any later friend can obtain.
[T]he ship turned and made slowly for her wharf under the wall, bringing even more fairly to view the life with which the river at that point was possessed.
He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.

inhold, seise

dispossess, unpossess

possesses, possessing, possessed

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