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possessing

/puh-zes/US // pəˈzɛs //UK // (pəˈzɛs) //

拥有,拥有的,具有,具备

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
    • : to have as a faculty, quality, or the like: to possess courage.
    • : to occupy, dominate, or control from within: He thought he was possessed by devils.
    • : to dominate or actuate in the manner of such a spirit: He was possessed by envy.
    • : to succeed in having sexual intercourse with.
    • : to have knowledge of: to possess a language.
    • : to keep or maintain in a certain state, as of peace, patience, etc.
    • : to maintain control over.
    • : to impart to; inform; familiarize: to possess someone of the facts of the case.
    • : to cause to be dominated or influenced, as by an idea, feeling, etc.
    • : to make owner, holder, or master, as of property, information, etc.: He possessed them of the facts.
    • : to seize or take.
    • : to gain or win.
    • : to occupy or hold.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbhave or obtain

Examples

  • I believe that humans ­today still possess the capabilities of the ancients.

  • Through two games of the World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers — owners of the best record in the majors — and the Tampa Bay Rays, possessing the best record in the AL this season, have each won a game.

  • Because gluons possess color charge themselves, they constantly interact with one another as well as with quarks.

  • The important thing to think about is do these underground lakes perhaps possess Martian life.

  • It’s enormously more powerful than when everyone merely possesses the same facts.

  • He was charged with two counts of possessing a raptor and two counts of possessing a protected species.

  • In 2010, however, a Georgian court sentenced Batirashvili to three years of jail for illegally possessing a weapon.

  • Morgan is a convicted felon and therefore barred from possessing firearms.

  • In November 2013, it was reported that 80 prisoners were publicly executed, many for possessing Bibles.

  • Soldier N was found guilty of possessing illegal firearms and was sentenced to two years in prison.

  • High-minded and possessing a keen sense of honor himself, he had an instinctive aversion to anything mean or low in others.

  • It is good for a man to have friends, and I have been fortunate throughout my life in possessing many.

  • These may be said to be pure in tone, but not possessing the other requisites they fail in commanding attention.

  • He is described by Calamy as having been a good scholar, and possessing a taste for poetry.

  • The strangest materials were used in their construction; the public taste leaning towards relics possessing historical interest.