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DISPOSSESS
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they dispossess ... he / she / it dispossesses
Past simple: dispossessed
Past participle: dispossessed
-ing form: dispossessing
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)
