DISPOSSESS


Meaning of DISPOSSESS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪspəzes ]

( dispossesses, dispossessing, dispossessed)

If you are dispossessed of something that you own, especially land or buildings, it is taken away from you.

...people who were dispossessed of their land under apartheid...

They settled the land, dispossessing many of its original inhabitants...

Droves of dispossessed people emigrated to Canada.

VERB : be V-ed of n , V n , V-ed , also V n of/from n

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