单词 | possessed |
释义 | possessed From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Occultpossessedpos‧sessed /pəˈzest/ adjective1 ROif someone is possessed, their mind is controlled by something evilpossessed by the devil. She was convinced he was like a man/woman possessed literary (=with a lot of energy or violence)2 → be possessed of something → self-possessedExamples from the Corpuspossessed• Her family thought that she was possessed, and called in a priest.like a man/woman possessed• Young played the game like a man possessed.• Sobbing and screaming, she thrashed about like a woman possessed.• Chamden performed like men possessed and even had the audacity to mount wave after wave of attacks. |
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