what possessed sb (to do sth)?

what possessed sb (to do sth)? spokenused to say that you cannot understand why someone did something stupid是什么驱使某人（做某事）？〔表示不明白某人为何做傻事〕:•What on earth possessed her to do it?到底是什么让她干出这种事的？

• stretches
• inscrutability
• Romer method
• Mescaleros
• good words and no deeds
• reflorescence
• ichneumons
• Alava
• demergers
• keep sth fresh in one’s mind
• parvolines
• adrenopathy
• show-through
• loyalized
• match up
• prefrontal lobotomies
• metal arc welding
• linear motor car
• the female of the species
• zenith tube
• hick
• overcover
• international ohm
• stay
• seismically
• rugosa rose ?
• bespatterer
• registor
• make much ado
• shapelessness
• Sherman, John
• donut
• not a mite
• fuzzy set
• black carpet
• a heartbeat away
• resurrection plant
• Quasimodo
• sandwich technique
• back pressure
• two-winged fly
• katalyzed
• one for the books
• appleknocker
• chabasites
• ankyrins
• lend itself to
• chub package
• run for
• iowans
• to the dregs
• beat about the bush
• Combes
• jussive
• matey
• quadplex
• close liver
• jaggery
• nonperformer
• shield factor
• pterygoid
• sugarbush
• contend with sth/sb
• thalamencephalic
• in the trenches
• sought
• two-way street
• jump up
• paginates
• chippered
• handbrace
• decagons
• mare liberum
• edgewise
• combustible shale
• exhaustive search
• paschal lamb
• texass
• merohedrism
• backwardnesses
• lint artist
• (just) think
• depolymerise
• wash one's dirty linen at home
• photoengravers
• reactionarism
• talk a good game
• what/where/who the blazes…?
• nationalisation
• scientific researches
• substandard propagation
• floating grid
• pedal gland
• associative law
• outsizes
• pejoratively
• American smoke tree
• mycovirus
• international salute
• yauds