unpossessing

Verb

unpossess (third-person singular simple present unpossesses, present participle unpossessing, simple past and past participle unpossessed)

1. (rare, transitive) To be without, or to resign, possession of.
   • This is a farce. Since when did I receive the gun (which is possessing it) and then unpossess it, and, then possess it again (all from 1984 to 1985) .1995, Kuffel V. United States of America, page 90
2. To free from an obsession that has taken hold of (someone)
   • The hold that is given over I unpossess, so hangeth now in balance Of war my peace, reward of all my pain, At Mountzon thus I restless rest in Spain.1879, Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, page 176