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Milner floats the ball into the penalty area and Villarreal embark on a lightning fast counter-attack that comes to an abrupt end when Dejan Lovren dispossesses Denis Suarez with a fine challenge.

From The Guardian • May 5, 2016

He gets past the first but then Hendrix dispossesses him.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2015

But Watson, upset at looking like a haddie, chases back and dispossesses the Portuguese.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2011

Oof, as I was writing that Asamoah Gyan goes close again when he dispossesses the Nigerian defence and tries to lob Vincent Enyeama.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2010

A grandson of the first claimant, Robert Bruce, is crowned King of Scotland; he dispossesses the English of a great part of Scotland.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter