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DISPOSSESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dispossess mean? 

DISPOSSESS (verb)
  The verb DISPOSSESS has 1 sense:

1. deprive of the possession of real estateplay

  Familiarity information: DISPOSSESS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISPOSSESS (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they dispossess  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it dispossesses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: dispossessed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: dispossessed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: dispossessing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of the possession of real estate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "dispossess" is one way to...):

deprive; divest; strip (take away possessions from someone)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They dispossess him of all his money

Derivation:

dispossession (the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law)


 Context examples 


Sometimes the quarrel between two princes is to decide which of them shall dispossess a third of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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