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to dispossess
01
to take away someone's ownership of a property
Transitive: to dispossess sb
Grammatical Information
action verb
regular
present tense
dispossess
3rd person singular
dispossesses
past simple
dispossessed
past participle
dispossessed
Examples
The government dispossessed the landowners to make way for a new highway.
Lexical Tree
dispossess
possess
