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to dispossess
01
to take away someone's ownership of a property
Transitive: to dispossess sb
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
dispossess
3rd person singular
dispossesses
Present participle
dispossessing
Past simple
dispossessed
Past participle
dispossessed
Examples
The government dispossessed the landowners to make way for a new highway.
Lexical Tree
dispossess
possess
