Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To deprive (another) of the possession or occupancy of something, such as real property.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To put out of possession; deprive of actual occupancy, particularly of real property; dislodge; disseize: usually followed by of before the thing possessed: as, to dispossess a tenant of his holding.
- To relieve or free from or as if from demoniac possession.
Wiktionary
- v. To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- v. deprive of the possession of real estate
Examples
“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.”
“The Zionist quotes I posted establish that the antiZionist accusations that Zionist Jews intended to "dispossess" Arabs - that are frequently posted on these threads by Arab apologists - are false.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Moss allegedly ordered the pair to look for police or traffic officers to attack and "dispossess" them of their service firearms, because the PAC did not have enough weapons to wage its armed struggle.”
“He said that action would "dispossess" Barr and his partners after they nearly finished Park Lafayette.”
“put out," "dispossess," &c., which are used in the same and in parallel passages?”
“It ends with Charlie Adam dispossessing Nasri and banging the ball off his rival's legs to win a goal-kick.54 mins: Johnson plays in Aguero, but Skrtel is across very quickly to dispossess.”
The Guardian: Manchester City 0 - 1 Liverpool – as it happened | Simon Burnton
“With colonies, a ruler needs to dispossess only a few powerful inhabitants and render them too poor to pose any meaningful threat thereafter.”
“Should you defeat the king, but fail to dispossess the other barons, maintaining power will become a miserable, Sisyphean undertaking.”
“Typical of his contribution was Chelsea's third goal, which saw him dispossess Peter Odemwingie on the left touchline near the halfway line and send Florent Malouda sprinting away to cross for Lampard, who finished with dead-eyed accuracy from 16 yards.”
The Guardian: Chelsea's Didier Drogba makes case to start instead of Fernando Torres
“And please resist the temptation to assume I think that having been exiled gives one the right to dispossess anyone else.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dispossess’.
-
Undo
A list of terms that denote separating one thing from another, or deconstructing a thing into its parts or to a former state. E.g., untie, divorce, unscramble.
untie, divorce, unscramble, disunite, disjoin, undo, separate, disassemble, uncouple, unhitch, disassociate, disaffiliate and 178 more...
-
Lyeneia's Field Journal
footnotes and add-ons from the gap-lands.
limey, apostate, conflagrate, kindle, dispossess, provenience, reckless malice, honking didactica..., consequential exi..., morainal, morae, compass and 28 more...
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.