dispossess
pronunciation
How to pronounce dispossess in British English:
UK [ˌdɪspəˈzes]
How to pronounce dispossess in American English:
US [ˌdɪspəˈzɛs]
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- Verb:
- expel or put out of the possession of real estate
Word Origin
- dispossess (v.)
- late 15c., from Old French despossesser "to dispossess," from des- (see dis-) + possesser (see possess). Related: Dispossessed; dispossessing.
Example
- 1. But the asherites dwelt among the canaanites who inhabited the land , for they did not dispossess them .
- 2. And ye shall dispossess of the land , and dwell therein : for I have given you the land to possess it .
- 3. His next book , " when a crocodile eats the sun " , described the economic collapse of zimbabwe after 2000 ( when the campaign to dispossess white-owned farms began in earnest ) through the prism of his father 's impoverishment , turmoil , decline and death .
- 4. When the lord your god cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess , and you dispossess them and dwell in their land .
- 5. When jehovah your god cuts off the nations before you , which you are entering to dispossess , and you dispossess them and dwell in their land .