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Repossess   /rˌipəzˈɛs/   Listen
Repossess

verb
1.
Claim back.  Synonym: reclaim.
2.
Regain possession of something.  Synonym: take back.



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"Repossess" Quotes from Famous Books



... O you new Housholders, who have already possessed your selves of so many Pleasures in your marriage; and are now come just to the very entrance to repossess your selves of them over again; and perchance they'l never depart from you as long as you see the one day follow the other. Be not backward or negligent in relating your happiness to others; but if there be any distast or disaster that can happen in the married estate, lock it up in the very ...
— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh

... she paused in her act of opening the telegram and made a motion as if to repossess herself of this, but seeming to think better of it she confined herself to ...
— The Mayor's Wife • Anna Katharine Green



Words linked to "Repossess" :   take, foreclose, get, distrain, acquire



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