Dispossess
verb
To take something away from someone, especially property or possessions.
The bank will dispossess him of his home if he can't meet the mortgage payments.
Often appears as...
- dispossess someone of something
- dispossess by somebody
verb
To take something away from someone, especially property or possessions.
The bank will dispossess him of his home if he can't meet the mortgage payments.
Often appears as...
- dispossess someone of something
- dispossess by somebody
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Context
Often used in legal situations where someone is forced to give up property or land.
The court order may dispossess the tenants of their leased farm.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Imbalance
Implies a power difference where the stronger party takes from the weaker.
Colonial powers dispossessed indigenous populations of their ancestral lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Involuntary Loss
Highlights that the loss is against the person's will and often unfair.
After the war, many families were dispossessed of their homes.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Context
Often used in legal situations where someone is forced to give up property or land.
The court order may dispossess the tenants of their leased farm.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Imbalance
Implies a power difference where the stronger party takes from the weaker.
Colonial powers dispossessed indigenous populations of their ancestral lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Involuntary Loss
Highlights that the loss is against the person's will and often unfair.
After the war, many families were dispossessed of their homes.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Context
Often used in legal situations where someone is forced to give up property or land.
The court order may dispossess the tenants of their leased farm.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Imbalance
Implies a power difference where the stronger party takes from the weaker.
Colonial powers dispossessed indigenous populations of their ancestral lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Involuntary Loss
Highlights that the loss is against the person's will and often unfair.
After the war, many families were dispossessed of their homes.
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
that don't have anything in their libraries, and also of organizing lots and lots of workshops, in reading and writing, for all the people who are eager to tell our many stories. Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign,
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Amy Toensing: The...
Dispossess the person from that and they become nothing.' Maybe this was where I could find that glimmer I saw in Lily's eyes. The homelands.
Video examples
Chimamanda Ngozi...
that don't have anything in their libraries, and also of organizing lots and lots of workshops, in reading and writing, for all the people who are eager to tell our many stories. Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign,
Video examples
Amy Toensing: The...
Dispossess the person from that and they become nothing.' Maybe this was where I could find that glimmer I saw in Lily's eyes. The homelands.
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Quote examples
Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
Legality' is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was founded on illegality. For the Americans to go in and dispossess the American Indians was illegal.
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Ariel Sharon
Israeli Leader
I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who did not come to Israel to dispossess its residents.
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C. Northcote Parkinson
British Historian
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
Quote examples
Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Quote examples
Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
Legality' is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was founded on illegality. For the Americans to go in and dispossess the American Indians was illegal.
Quote examples
Ariel Sharon
Israeli Leader
I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who did not come to Israel to dispossess its residents.
Quote examples
C. Northcote Parkinson
British Historian
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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