unpossess
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To free from an obsession that has taken hold of (someone)
Example Sentences
- "This is a farce. Since when did I receive the gun (which is possessing it) and then unpossess it, and, then possess it again (all from 1984 to 1985) ."
- "Users can select whether the Soul should continue to refer to the original Body (B_C on the host A) or it should unpossess the old Body and possess a one on the host B."
- "These two events are called when this player controller possesses and unpossesses a pawn."
- "The hold that is given over I unpossess, so hangeth now in balance Of war my peace, reward of all my pain, At Mountzon thus I restless rest in Spain."
- "[…] but she also exits as a new person, for to be free, she had to unpossess herself of her "possession," her passion."
- "She was posssessed, Nausicaa was, and no amount of reminding her of Odysseus's age and marital status could unpossess her ."
Etymology
From un- + possess.