dispossess

[US]/dɪspə'zes/
[UK]/'dɪspə'zɛs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

Verb: deprive of possession or ownership; evict, expel.

Example Sentences

dispossess sb. from his home

They have been unjustly dispossessed of their hometown.

they were dispossessed of lands and properties at the time of the Reformation.

he dispossessed Hendrie and set off on a solo run.

The nobles were dispossessed of their lands after the Revolution.

They have dispossessed her of her house.

They have dispossessed him of his political rights.

The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.

Real-world Examples

That they're dispossessed at our hand and have received nothing. – That's enough.

Source: Deep Dive into the Movie World (LSOO)

He lent his entirely original canyon of a voice to the lonesome and the lost, the dispossessed and the disillusioned.

Source: What it takes: Celebrity Interviews

They move only when actually dispossessed, taking off in a long leap that is almost a flight.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

Fuentes, the Presidential Term Chair in African-American History at Rutgers University, is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Source: Time

Charity and Harney, dispossessed by newcomers, were at length obliged to give up their table and struggle through the throng about the boat-landings.

Source: Summer

For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.

Source: 23 Isaiah Musical Bible Theater Edition - NIV

So to say that this has been the best government for the dispossessed and the marginalised people of Mexico, I think it's a myth.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

Less than two minutes later, Coman dispossessed Messi on the halfway line and launched a counterattack that ended in another brilliant Mbappe strike to level the game.

Source: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar

It was the Grand-Duke Hermann III., reigning (although dispossessed) sovereign of the Grand-duchy of Zweibrucken-Veldenz and a confidant of Prince Bismarck, whose entire friendship he enjoyed.

Source: The Mystery of 813 (Part Two)

In the expectation of what reward are Polish mothers leaving their strollers on train stations so Ukrainian mothers fleeing, dispossessed and broken, will find some respite?

Source: TED Talks (Audio Version) November 2022 Collection

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