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DISPOSSESS

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 I. (verb) 

Verb forms

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 estateplay

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)

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