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DISPOSSESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dispossess mean? 

DISPOSSESS (verb)
  The verb DISPOSSESS has 1 sense:

1. expel or put out of the possession of real estate

  Familiarity information: DISPOSSESS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISPOSSESS (verb)


Sense 1dispossess [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Expel or put out of the possession of real estate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "dispossess" is one way to...):

deprive; divest; strip (take away possessions from someone)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They dispossess him of all his money


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