Usually means: Controlled by external force, entity.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word possessed:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. possessed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. possessed: Merriam-Webster
  3. possessed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. possessed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. possessed: Collins English Dictionary
  6. possessed: Vocabulary.com
  7. Possessed, possessed: Wordnik
  8. possessed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. possessed: Wiktionary
  10. possessed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. possessed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. possessed: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Possessed, possessed, the possessed: Dictionary.com
  14. possessed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Possessed (Gojira album), Possessed (TV series), Possessed (Venom album), Possessed (band), Possessed (novel), Possessed (roller coaster), Possessed, The Possessed (novel), The Possessed (play), The Possessed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Possessed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. possessed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. possessed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. possessed: FreeDictionary.org
  20. possessed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. possessed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. possessed: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. possessed: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Possessed (film), Possessed (movie), The Possessed, possessed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possessed: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. possessed: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possessed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  controlled by evil spirits.
adjective:  Seized by powerful emotions.
adjective:  (not comparable) Followed by of: having; owning.

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