dispossess
verb (used with object)
to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
has dispossessed
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present perfectof dispossess (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Thady's son, Jason Quirk, attorney and agent to the estate, has dispossessed the Rackrents; but Thady is still "poor Thady," and regards the change with horror.
From Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
In effect, then, the physicist has dispossessed the many imponderables in favor of a single imponderable—though the word imponderable has been banished from his vocabulary.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams
So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
From The World English Bible (WEB): Judges by Anonymous
Now, however, that the man has taken up arms, and by force has dispossessed Lord Grey, the matter touches all of us who are responsible for the keeping of peace in the Welsh marches.
From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Ralph Peacock
Presently Ismene comes with the news that Eteocles has dispossessed his elder brother Polyneices; further, an oracle from Delphi declares that Oedipus is all-important to Thebes in life and after death.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
