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Learn to pronounce pos·ses·sion

/pəˈzeSH(ə)n/
noun
  1. the state of having, owning, or controlling something.
    "he had taken possession of one of the sofas"
    synonyms: ownership, proprietorship, control, hands, keeping, care, custody, charge, hold, title, guardianship, seize, appropriate, impound, expropriate, sequestrate, sequester, confiscate, take, get, acquire, obtain, secure, procure, possess oneself of, get hold of, get one's hands on, help oneself to, occupy, conquer, capture, commandeer, requisition, distrain, attach, disseize, poind, get one's mitts on
  2. an item of property; something belonging to one.
    "I was alone with no money or possessions"
    synonyms: asset, thing, article, item owned, chattel, belongings, things, property, worldly goods, goods, personal effects, effects, stuff, assets, accoutrements, paraphernalia, impedimenta, bits and pieces, luggage, baggage, bags and baggage, chattels, movables, valuables, goods and chattels, gear, junk, traps, clobber, trek, dunnage, shit, crap
  3. the state of being controlled by a demon or spirit.
    "they prayed for protection against demonic possession"

possession from m.imdb.com
Rating (42,850)
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more ...
possession from en.m.wikipedia.org
Possession is a 1981 psychological horror drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and written by Żuławski and Frederic Tuten. The plot obliquely follows the ...

Possession

R · 1981 ‧ Horror/Fantasy ‧ 2h 3m
7.3/10 · IMDb 83% · Rotten Tomatoes 75% · Metacritic
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Mark is devastated, and seeks out Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), the man who cuckolded him, only to receive a beating....
Release date: October 28, 1983 (USA)
Distributed by: Gaumont
Box office: $1.1 million (US only)
Budget: $2.4 million

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