unpossess

present singular third person unpossesses · participle present unpossessing · participle past unpossessed · past unpossessed

1. raretransitiveTo be without, or to resign, possession of.

   These two events are called when this player controller possesses and unpossesses a pawn.

   2021, Kassandra Arevalo, Matthew Tovar, Jingtian Li, Creating Games with Unreal Engine, Substance Painter, & Maya, pages 12-156

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   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) .

   1995, Kuffel V. United States of America, page 90

   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.

   1999, Proceedings: 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, page 203

2. To free from an obsession that has taken hold of (someone)

   […] but she also exits as a new person, for to be free, she had to unpossess herself of her "possession," her passion.

   1985, Alice Eileen Jurish, And what is Fate But Love?

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   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.

   1879, Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, page 176

   She was posssessed, Nausicaa was, and no amount of reminding her of Odysseus's age and marital status could unpossess her .

   1987, Fiction - Volume 8, Issue 2, page 46