Dispossess

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To deprive (another) of the possession or occupancy of something, such as real property.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
  • v. To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. deprive of the possession of real estate
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    divest    deprive    strip   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    disseize    eject    remove    forjudge    expropriate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bess    Es    Etess    Fs    Hess    Hesse    Ins    Jess    Les    Ness   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    true    somewhere    appertain    to!'    died?'    lie    manasota    removedwithout    forth.'    needs