repossess
verb (used with object)
to regain ownership of; to take back, especially for failure to make due payment.
had repossessed
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past perfectof repossess.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Jeramy seemed to have a motive: A couple of weeks before the break-in, Roebuck had repossessed a Dodge Dakota pickup truck he’d sold to Jeramy after his nephew fell behind on payments.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Once the British had repossessed the Falklands, they would not feel bound by any understandings reached with the Argentines before the talks broke down.
From Time Magazine Archive
An hour later—and the wilderness had repossessed itself of all.
From In a Hollow of the Hills by Bret Harte
When an infant, they had made him a ruin; of this ruin Nature had repossessed herself, as she does of all ruins.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
By the end of 1932 the Federal Land Bank had repossessed more farms than they knew what to do with.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Clarence Edgar Johnson
