dis·pos·sessed

[dis-puh-zest]
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.

Origin:
1590–1600; dispossess + -ed2

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dis·pos·sess

[dis-puh-zes]
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.

Origin:
1425–75; dis-1 + possess; replacing Middle English disposseden, equivalent to dis-1 + posseden (< Old French posseder) < Latin possidēre; see possess

dis·pos·ses·sion, noun
dis·pos·ses·sor, noun
dis·pos·ses·so·ry [dis-puh-zes-uh-ree] , adjective


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dispossess (ˌdɪspəˈzɛs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
(tr) to take away possession of something, esp property; expel
 
dispos'session
 
n
 
dispos'sessor
 
n
 
dispos'sessory
 
adj

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dispossess
late 15c., from O.Fr. despossesser "to dispossess," from des- "dis-" (see dis-) + possesser "possess" (see possess). Related: Dispossessed; dispossession.
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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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