v. Simple past tense and past participle of dispossess.
adj. homeless
adj. impoverished
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Having lost one's self-possession or self-command.
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adj. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
Word Usage
"If you were poor, whether at home or in some Third World country, you were one of the 'dispossessed'-even if you had never possessed anything to dispossess you of."