dispossess

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We were running so far behind that the only thing which saved us from a dispossess was the fact that they couldn't get a constable who would carry the snakes out to the sidewalk; but Merritt was a resourceful cuss and I felt confident that he would figure out some scheme to win out Illustration: "Kicking over their heads and into their very mouths."

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  1. transitive verb To deprive (another) of the possession or occupancy of something, such as real property.

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  • He gathered a large following by playing on fears that the Jews had come to dispossess, or at least dominate the Arabs.
  • In Mr. Stix's own words, it's part of the campaign to "disenfranchise and dispossess ordinary whites". —  VDARE.com: Blog Articles
  • The Courts have consistently stated that their rights have been violated, they hold valid and legal title to the land they once farmed and that the action taken to dispossess them was racially motivated and criminal in intent. —  SWRadioAfrica Podcast
  • STATE security agents and former liberation heroes have launched fresh farm invasions to occupy farms and dispossess the few remaining white commercial farmers still farming in Zimbabwe. —  National Policy Institute
  • A couple of minutes later, Francis sent another fine pass that saw Orlando Mitchum breaking clear of the high BVI defence but indecision of the part of Mitchum saw BVI's Venton James catching up with him to dispossess him while he was yards away from the goal. —  Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines
 

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  1. from Old French despossesser, deposseser = Provencal despossezir = Italian dispossessare, spossessare; as dis- privative + possess, v. Cf. Old French desposser, also desposseder, French déposséder = Spanish desposeer (cf. Portuguese despossar, desapossar), from Middle Latin dispossidere, dispossess, from dis- privative + possidere, possess: see dis- and possess.
 

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/dɪspəˈzɛs/
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