unpossess

From un- +‎ possess.

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

1. (transitive, rare) To be without, or to resign, possession of.
   • 1995, Kuffel V. United States of America, page 90:

     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) .

   • 1999, Proceedings: 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, page 203:

     Users can select whether the Soul should continue to refer to the original Body (B_C on the host A) or it should unpossess the old Body and possess a one on the host B.

   • 2021, Kassandra Arevalo, ‎Matthew Tovar, ‎Jingtian Li, Creating Games with Unreal Engine, Substance Painter, & Maya, pages 12-156:

     These two events are called when this player controller possesses and unpossesses a pawn.

2. To free from an obsession that has taken hold of (someone)
   • 1879, Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, page 176:

     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.

   • 1985, Alice Eileen Jurish, And what is Fate But Love?:

     […] but she also exits as a new person, for to be free, she had to unpossess herself of her "possession," her passion.

   • 1987, Fiction - Volume 8, Issue 2, page 46:

     She was posssessed, Nausicaa was, and no amount of reminding her of Odysseus's age and marital status could unpossess her .