Dictionary Entry
possession
possession is a 10-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
- 2noun
The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.
- 3noun
The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.
- 4noun
The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.
- 5transitive verb
To invest with property.
- 6noun
anything owned or possessed
- 7noun
the act of having and controlling property
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- 8noun
(sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck)
"they took possession of the ball on their own goal line"
- 9noun
the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
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- 10noun
a territory that is controlled by a ruling state
- 11noun
a mania restricted to one thing or idea
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- 12noun
being controlled by passion or the supernatural
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