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possession
A	noun
	1	possession
			anything owned or possessed

	2	possession, ownership
			the act of having and controlling property
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚control ╚possession, ownership ╚retention; keeping; holding ╚criminal possession ╚constructive possession ╚actual possession
	3	possession
			(sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck); "they took possession of the ball on their own goal line"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚control ╚possession
	4	self-control, self-possession, possession, willpower, self-command, self-will
			the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚trait ╚resoluteness; firmness; resolve; resolution ╚self-control, self-possession, possession, willpower, self-command, self-will ╚presence of mind ╚nerves
	5	possession
			a territory that is controllled by a ruling state
		Category Tree: entity ╚location ╚region ╚district; territory; territorial dominion; dominion ╚possession ╚French Polynesia; French Oceania ╚Faroe Islands; Faeroe Islands; Faroes; Faeroes ╚Gilbert and Ellice Islands ╚United States Virgin Islands; American Virgin Islands; VI ╚British Virgin Islands ╚Macao; Macau
	6	monomania, possession
			a mania restricted to one thing or idea
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚motivation; motive; need ╚irrational motive ╚mania; passion; cacoethes ╚monomania, possession
	7	possession
			being controlled by passion or the supernatural
		Category Tree: state ╚condition; status ╚psychological state; mental state ╚enchantment; spell; trance ╚possession

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