dispossessed

[ dis-puh-zest ]
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adjective
  1. evicted, as from a dwelling, land, etc.; ousted.

  2. without property, status, etc., as wandering or displaced persons; rootless; disfranchised.

  1. having suffered the loss of expectations, prospects, relationships, etc.; disinherited; disaffiliated; alienated: The modern city dweller may feel spiritually dispossessed.

Origin of dispossessed

1
First recorded in 1590–1600; dispossess + -ed2

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How to use dispossessed in a sentence

  • The advancing sand gradually crept into the hamlet, and in the course of a decade dispossessed the people by burying their houses.

    Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
  • But the Boers advanced, the natives were dispossessed of their lands, and missionaries were expelled from their regions.

    Robert Moffat | David J. Deane
  • Among them was Eucher with the handsome Yolande, dispossessed of her father's heritage by the seigneur of Plouernel.

  • In that struggle Thyrsis saw clearly that his place was in the ranks of the disinherited and dispossessed.

    Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair
  • She was afterwards dispossessed, but the government remained in the hands of the descendants of her family.