"possess" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

possess verbo

possess + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
possess weapons • possess knowledge • possess properties • possess qualities • possess powers • possess skills • possess strength • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 27
(7) talent, gift
Kolokacji: 2
(10) firearm, reserve, firepower
Kolokacji: 3
(11) authority, confidence
Kolokacji: 2
(13) land, superpower, estate
Kolokacji: 3
(17) eye, magic
Kolokacji: 2
(18) beauty, Grace, agility
Kolokacji: 3
(21) value, merit
Kolokacji: 2
1. possess value = miej wartość possess value
2. possess merit = miej zaletę possess merit
  • The "Flowers of the Forest" however is considered the only thing she wrote that possesses lasting literary merit.
  • We're totally focused on the question of who possesses merit and don't pay nearly enough attention to the overall good.
  • Growing up surrounded by strong warriors, he possesses merit as a mercenary, despite his youth.
  • Robespierre wrote to his brother, the real head of the government at the moment, that Napoleon possessed "transcendent merit."
  • If "Lucrece" does not scale the heights, it nonetheless possesses merit.
  • He was a painter whose pictures possess great merit, and are to be met with in almost every collection.
  • Although she was not equal to her sister in the use of the graver, her prints possess considerable merit.
  • He studied historical painting under Verhaeghen, and made large pen-and-ink drawings, which possess much merit.
  • Notwithstanding this defect, which was very general at the time in which he lived, his works possess considerable merit.
  • In spite of the help of many friends, it was some time before the public realized that her work possessed high merit.
(22) expertise, competence
Kolokacji: 2
(23) material, equipment
Kolokacji: 2
(27) stamina, leg
Kolokacji: 2
possess + preposición
Kolokacji: 26
possessed by • possess of • possess in • possess with • possess at • ...
possess + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 29
once possess • actually possess • alone possess • no longer possess • illegally possess • ...

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