to dispossess
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8.4
- verb
- /ˌdɪspəˈzɛs/
:
despojar de
- Now the roads are choked with the dispossessed.
- dispossessed people
- dispossessed squatters
- dispossessed of their land
Now, in order to make that happen, City Hall had to dispossess many of these Vietnamese refugee shopkeepers, including my parents.
- Now, in order to make that happen, City Hall had to dispossess many of these Vietnamese refugee shopkeepers, including my parents.
- And the history of the Jewish people has been various efforts, you know, to try to dispossess the Israelites and the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland.
Examples
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Now, in order to make that happen, City Hall had to dispossess many of these Vietnamese refugee shopkeepers, including my parents.
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The new policy aims to dispossess illegal squatters from the abandoned buildings.
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We're going to be dispossessed today.
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Centuries of British conquest leave the native Irish dispossessed.
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In Mexico, for example, it is estimated that nearly two million farmers have been dispossessed since NAFTA went into effect.
Academic text (2008) -
As a result, after each food crisis, the rural population became ever more dispossessed and vulnerable to cyclical droughts.
Academic text (2008) -
As territorial expansion continued, Africans were dispossessed of their land to establish white sovereignty and African subjugation.
Academic text (1998) -
The government plans to dispossess landowners to build the new highway.
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During the war, many families were dispossessed of their homes and forced to flee.
Synonyms
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3.2
To take something important away from someone or stop them having it
To steal something from someone often by force
Antonyms
How Deprived
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8.4
- Formal
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8.8
- Formal
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4.6
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∞
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dispossess is made from dis- meaning 'away' and possess meaning 'to have', so it literally means to take away what someone 'has'. That's why to dispossess someone is to take their land or property from them.