dispossessed
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pəˈzɛst adjective
1.
evicted, as from a dwelling, land, etc.; ousted.
2.
without property, status, etc., as wandering or displaced persons; rootless; disfranchised.
3.
having suffered the loss of expectations, prospects, relationships, etc.; disinherited; disaffiliated; alienated: The modern city dweller may feel spiritually dispossessed.
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verb (used with object)
1.
to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
2.
to banish.
3.
to abandon ownership of (a building), especially as a bad investment: Landlords have dispossessed many old tenement buildings.
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| —vb | |
| (tr) to take away possession of something, esp property; expel | |
| dispos'session | |
| —n | |
| dispos'sessor | |
| —n | |
| dispos'sessory | |
| —adj | |
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Example sentences
Unable to pay rent or meet mortgage payments, many families were dispossessed from their homes.
The families that had been dispossessed to make way for the capital city did not do too badly.
Small land occupiers dispossessed by bureaucrats who make fortunes selling the farmland to property developers.
He was said to have never raised the rent or dispossessed a tenant for the inability to pay rent.
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