dispossess
verb (used with object)
to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
were dispossessing
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past progressiveof dispossess.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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They were very idealistic pioneers, but how could they set up an equal society when they were dispossessing other people?
From Time Magazine Archive
But now the small farms were already being turned into large, the sheep were dispossessing the plough, and the principle of "led" farms was depopulating the countryside.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
