Word.ws English Dictionary

repossess

/ˌriːpəˈzɛs/

repossess verb: to reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.

Verb

repossess (third-person singular simple present repossesses, present participle repossessing, simple past and past participle repossessed)

  1. To reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.
  2. (dated, reflexive) To gain back possession of.
    • to repossess oneself of something lost

Forms of repossess

third-person singular presentrepossesses
present participlerepossessing
past participlerepossessed
pastrepossessed

Past tense of repossess: repossessed

Origin of repossess

From re- + possess.

Words formed from repossess

Questions about repossess

What does repossess mean?
Repossess means to reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.
What part of speech is repossess?
Repossess is a verb.
How do you pronounce repossess?
Repossess is pronounced /ˌriːpəˈzɛs/.
What is the past tense of repossess?
The past tense of repossess is repossessed.

Words near repossess in the dictionary

  1. repositor
  2. repositories
  3. repositors
  4. repository
  5. reposits
  6. repossess
  7. repossessable
  8. repossessed
  9. repossesses
  10. repossessible
  11. repossessing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: repossess (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-repossess.wav.

Cite this entry: “repossess.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/repossess. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.