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Dispossess meaning
To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them. | To deprive someone of possession in general. | To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone).
Example sentences (17)
Admitting that the CBN had the right to redesign the country’s currency, he, however, argued that the apex bank did not have the right to dispossess the citizens of their cash.
Calvin Bassey has rescued Fulham from going further behind, after the Nigerian defender’s crucial intervention dispossess Matheus Cunha after a terrible backpass from captain Tom Cairney.
He continued: “He has qualities that aren’t easy to find; he is strong in the air and hard to dispossess.
The miscreants use dangerous weapons to dispossess innocent passengers of their valuables.
After Democrat Roy Cooper narrowly defeated Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in 2016, the GOP-led General Assembly moved quickly to dispossess the incoming governor of some of the office’s powers.
Made a decisive early challenge to dispossess Lingard.
Romeu does brilliantly to dispossess Salah and pick out Redmond, who sets off towards Liverpool's box.
So, this means that CECA was not interested in being repaid but rather to illegally dispossess its local partners.
Sterling races into the penalty box but there's nobody else around, much and Bournemouth dispossess City.
In the video, the NSCDC official could be seen struggling with two policemen who were trying to dispossess him of the rifle in a room.
Accelerating immigration, both Mexican and foreign, increased pressure on the Alta California government to seize the mission properties and dispossess the natives in accordance with Echeandía's directive.
Brut y Tywysogion pp. 155–6 Joan was able to persuade her father not to dispossess her husband completely, but Llywelyn lost all his lands west of the River Conwy.
If the considerable power of the Port Authority is allowed to dispossess the merchants of Radio Row, then, it is our conviction, no home or business is safe from the caprice of government.
If the marauders did not stay to permanently dispossess them of grazing areas, the fleeing clan might return to rebuild in a day or two.
In the so-called anti-monastic reaction, the nobles took advantage of Edward's weakness to dispossess the Benedictine reformed monasteries of lands and other properties that King Edgar had granted to them.
Never by slaughter dispossess souls that are kin and nourish blood with blood!
The purpose is to drive out and dispossess the Canaanites, with the implication that there are to be no treaties with the enemy, no mercy, and no intermarriage.