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repossess

/ree-puh-zes/US // ˌri pəˈzɛs //UK // (ˌriːpəˈzɛs) //

收回,收缴,收购,收回房屋

Related Words

retake补考,重考,重修,复试 recover恢复,复原,复苏,恢复原状 retrieve检索,取回,检索出,找回 recapture夺回,收复,夺回武器,收回 reclaim收回,回收,收回来,填海造地 get back追回,回来,找回,找回来 reacquire重新获得,重新获取,重新收购,重获

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to possess again; regain possession of, especially for nonpayment of money due.
- : to put again in possession of something: to repossess the Bourbons of their throne.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbtake back

Synonyms

retake补考,重考,重修,复试 recapture夺回,收复,夺回武器,收回 reclaim收回,回收,收回来,填海造地 recover恢复,复原,复苏,恢复原状 retrieve检索,取回,检索出,找回 get back追回,回来,找回,找回来 obtain again再次获得,再获,再度获得,再获得 reacquire重新获得,重新获取,重新收购,重获

Examples

He can repossess himself, if this can be done peaceably, otherwise he must bring an action for the purpose.
I do not think that I am less impatient now than formerly to repossess—to entirely engross—my own treasured love.
"He has the same right to repossess his slave here as in his own State;" the same right to kill him if he attempts to escape!
And up he climbed again, thrust in his arm to the shoulder, and managed to repossess himself a fifth time of that blessed crock.
And his longing to get rid of her changed, like a flash of lightning, into a passionate yearning to repossess her, dead.

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