have dispossessed

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of dispossess.
  dispossess

  verb (used with object)

  to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.

Example Sentences

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have dispossessed

Here I am placed by heaven, here I am prince, Though you have dispossessed me of my Milan.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

The Gorkhalese commander, far from being dismayed, seems soon to have dispossessed these troops, and gave out that he had retreated from Sikim merely on account of the severity of the cold.

From An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

I would have preferred to have dispossessed some fighting abbot.

From The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Eugène Sue

The date of their arrival in the Sudan is uncertain: they appear to have drifted up the Nile valley and to have dispossessed the original Nuba population.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

You have dispossessed the family, whose property it is, of it, and you have caused great confusion and dismay over a whole county.

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

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