Dispossess
[dɪspə'zes] or ['dɪspə'zɛs]
Definition
(v. t.) To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Deprive, divest, strip, take from.[2]. Disseize, oust.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See POSSESS]
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Definition
v.t. to put out of possession.—n. Dispossess′or.
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Examples
- To dispossess them of this, therefore, became a matter of the first importance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These two, whom I come to life to disappoint and dispossess, cry for joy! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mechanical inventions suggest a change: a dispossessed class compels it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They dispossessed _Homo Neanderthalensis_ from his caverns and his stone quarries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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