Possessed

Verb
possessed



Adjective

 * 1) controlled by evil spirits
 * He was exorcised because he was thought to be possessed by the Devil.
 * 1) seized by powerful emotions
 * 2) * 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
 * Oh, what ridiculous resolutions men take when possessed with fear!
 * 1)  having, owning
 * The president was possessed of great wealth.

Derived terms

 * self-possessed

Thesaurus
abandoned, amok, bedeviled, bellowing, berserk, besotted, bewitched, bursting with happiness, by one, carried away, collected, composed, consumed, controlled, crazed, delirious, demented, demoniac, demonized, devil-ridden, distracted, dominated, driven, easy, eaten up, ecstatic, elate, elated, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entranced, exalted, exultant, feral, ferocious, fierce, fixated, flushed, frantic, freaked out, free and clear, frenzied, fulminating, furious, ghost-haunted, ghost-ridden, gripped, hag-ridden, haggard, haunted, held, high, hog-wild, howling, hung-up, hysterical, imparadised, in a transport, in ecstasies, in fee, in fee simple, in hand, in heaven, in hysterics, in paradise, in raptures, in seisin, in seventh heaven, in stock, in store, infatuated, intoxicated, jubilant, mad, maddened, madding, maniac, monomaniac, monomaniacal, obsessed, on cloud nine, on hand, orgasmic, orgiastic, overjoyed, overjoyful, own, owned, pixilated, placid, poised, preoccupied, prepossessed, pressed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, rapt, raptured, rapturous, raving, ravished, rhapsodic, roaring, running mad, self-possessed, sent, serene, specter-haunted, spirit-haunted, spooked, spooky, storming, tranquil, transported, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, witch-charmed, witch-held, witch-struck, witched

Adjective

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 * Swedish: besatt