Crossword clues for dispossess
dispossess
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispossess \Dis`pos*sess"\ (?; see Possess), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispossessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispossessing.] [Pref. dis- + possess: cf. F. d['e]poss['e]der.] To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain.
--Goldsmith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them. 2 (context sports English) To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone).
WordNet
v. expel or put out of the possession of real estate
Usage examples of "dispossess".
I gotta dispossess a Bidonville, give myself a bang of H, piss on the Black Stone, make with the Prayer Call whilst dressed in my hog suit, cancel Lend Lease and get fucked up the ass simultaneous.
Melbourne was a melting pot of the dynamic and hopeless: the pioneers who wanted to carve a future out of the bushland, newly released convicts, dispossessed Aborigines stupefied with rum, government functionaries building a curriculum vitae to take elsewhere, speculators growing rich on credit, and speculators going bankrupt for the lack thereof.
The queen saw once busy towns half emptied of their folk, grazing lands gone to bramble, deep forests infested with dispossessed men turned poachers and robbers, on every tor a ruined citadel or one marked for doom.
Poitiers about Easter time under escort of Earl Patrick and his bodyguard, the dispossessed Lusignans burst from ambush upon her convoy and tried to capture her, as it was said, for ransom to recoup their recent losses.
Count of Blois in Touraine, where Henry had dispossessed him, and the County of Mortaine, England offered the grand prizes for revolt.
Dispnzed and dispossessed of his inheritance, he would take the cross.
My infant son is dispossessed and in mortal danger, for he will certainly be murdered if his uncle finds him.
But I have seen the Chaos Spirit abroad in the land, listened to the screams of the dying, heard the cries of the dispossessed and widowed.
But think on this, Alexander: if you are dispossessed there will be those who will seek your death.
Kristan must have involved the dispossessed, those with no faction, who lived on the underside of urban society.
Nerlin and colluding with the remnants of Faction Reinal against the Decision Group, not to mention arming the dispossessed against the nobility.
He had known sentimental young ladies who had taken a memento of their dispossessed land to cherish in their trinket boxes.
All of this biblically inspired nonsense has taken deepest root in those dispossessed of their farmland in the last generation.
Why do dispossessed farmers have no congressional representatives to turn to?
So towns and villages continue to decay between the Canadian and the Mexican borders, and the dispossessed rural population despairs or rages.