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repossess

/ree-puh-zes/US // ˌri pəˈzɛs //UK // (ˌriːpəˈzɛs) //

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to possess again; regain possession of, especially for nonpayment of money due.
    • : to put again in possession of something: to repossess the Bourbons of their throne.

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Examples

  • He can repossess himself, if this can be done peaceably, otherwise he must bring an action for the purpose.

  • I do not think that I am less impatient now than formerly to repossess—to entirely engross—my own treasured love.

  • "He has the same right to repossess his slave here as in his own State;" the same right to kill him if he attempts to escape!

  • And up he climbed again, thrust in his arm to the shoulder, and managed to repossess himself a fifth time of that blessed crock.

  • And his longing to get rid of her changed, like a flash of lightning, into a passionate yearning to repossess her, dead.