repossess
verb (used with object)
to regain ownership of; to take back, especially for failure to make due payment.
is repossessing
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present progressiveof repossess (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The finance company is repossessing your wife's artificial kidney.
From Time Magazine Archive
The principles deserve to be remembered, and to remember them rightly is repossessing them.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis by Moncure Daniel Conway
