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poss

(pɒs)
vb
(tr) to wash (clothes) by agitating them with a long rod, pole, etc
[of uncertain origin]
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poss.

1. possession.
2. possessive.
3. possible.
4. possibly.
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poss


Past participle: possed
Gerund: possing

Imperative
poss
poss
Present
I poss
you poss
he/she/it posses
we poss
you poss
they poss
Preterite
I possed
you possed
he/she/it possed
we possed
you possed
they possed
Present Continuous
I am possing
you are possing
he/she/it is possing
we are possing
you are possing
they are possing
Present Perfect
I have possed
you have possed
he/she/it has possed
we have possed
you have possed
they have possed
Past Continuous
I was possing
you were possing
he/she/it was possing
we were possing
you were possing
they were possing
Past Perfect
I had possed
you had possed
he/she/it had possed
we had possed
you had possed
they had possed
Future
I will poss
you will poss
he/she/it will poss
we will poss
you will poss
they will poss
Future Perfect
I will have possed
you will have possed
he/she/it will have possed
we will have possed
you will have possed
they will have possed
Future Continuous
I will be possing
you will be possing
he/she/it will be possing
we will be possing
you will be possing
they will be possing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been possing
you have been possing
he/she/it has been possing
we have been possing
you have been possing
they have been possing
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been possing
you will have been possing
he/she/it will have been possing
we will have been possing
you will have been possing
they will have been possing
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been possing
you had been possing
he/she/it had been possing
we had been possing
you had been possing
they had been possing
Conditional
I would poss
you would poss
he/she/it would poss
we would poss
you would poss
they would poss
Past Conditional
I would have possed
you would have possed
he/she/it would have possed
we would have possed
you would have possed
they would have possed
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Translations

poss

[pɒs]
A. ADJ ABBR =possible as soon as posscuanto antes, lo más pronto posible
B. ADV ABBR =possibly
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poss

abbr of possible, possiblymögl.
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References in classic literature ?
"This 25th day of April, 1498, be...ing invited to dine by his Holiness Alexander VI., and fearing that not...content with making me pay for my hat, he may desire to become my heir, and re...serves for me the fate of Cardinals Caprara and Bentivoglio, who were poisoned...I declare to my nephew, Guido Spada, my sole heir, that I have bu...ried in a place he knows and has visited with me, that is, in...the caves of the small Island of Monte Cristo all I poss...ssed of ingots, gold, money, jewels, diamonds, gems; that I alone...know of the existence of this treasure, which may amount to nearly two mil...lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro...ck from the small creek to the east in a right line.
The spoken word had located him in the wild canyons of Sonoma Mountain and fringed the mountain with posses of peace-officers and detachments of armed farmers.
So it happened, when the posses had begun to penetrate the mountain, and when the man was compelled to make a daylight dash down into the Valley of the Moon to cross over to the mountain fastnesses that lay between it and Napa Valley, that Harley Kennan rode out on the hot-blooded colt he was training.
During the preceding night he had noted the campfires of several posses. At dawn, attempting to break forth down the south-western slopes of the mountain toward Petaluma, he had encountered not less than five separate detachments of dairy-ranchers all armed with Winchesters and shotguns.
It's the cause of much suffering, but it's a consolation to know I posses it, when I wake up in the night." Here another burst of feeling.
"Now, then, let us calculate how much we posses in all."
Freely was seized with an irrepressible ambition to posses Mrs.
I have been so happy to posses you, and now am so wretched as to be forced to fly from you.
Three olefinic POSS additives were examined: vinyl, allyl and methacrylate POSS.
The evening entertainment features Poss, Nashville, Tennessee, recording artist and songwriter Danny Myrick, and Marvel to close the show.
[14] prepared a POSS-based amphiphilic supramolecule from the host-guest inclusion complexation between a mono adamantane-functionalized POSS (AD-POSS) and a [beta]-cyclodextrin oligomer (P ([beta]-CD)).
In brief, polycaprolactone diol (2000g/mol) and trans-cyclohexanechlorohydrinisobutyl-polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) were mixed and heated to 135[degrees]C.