Sample sentences for DISPOSSESS

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Definition

to take away possession of something — especially real estate

In the form, dispossessed, the word is often used as a noun to refer to people who are impoverished (poor—in any of different ways such as without physical or spiritual comforts, or without rights)

In the countersuit she charged that the lenders were conspiring to dispossess her of her property.

dispossess = to take away possession of something — especially real estate

attempting to ease the suffering of the dispossessed people
Once, the first time, when the rent of the house was two months behind and the landlord was threatening dispossession, it was Felipe Rivera, the scrub-boy in the poor, cheap clothes, worn and threadbare, who laid sixty dollars in gold on May Sethby's desk.
Jack London -- The Night-Born

(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)

Too many have been dispossessed of their heritage, and we have banded together in brotherhood so as to do something about it.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

dispossessed = deprived (had something taken away from them)

Green pressed his claim and got the estates; the dispossessed nobleman shot himself and died without issue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton -- The Wisdom Of Father Brown
...Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Ezekiel 45:9 (NIV)
...You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky.
Deuteronomy 9:1 (NIV)
We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
To-morrow some other little problem may be submitted to my notice which will in turn dispossess the fair French lady and the infamous Upwood.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
I had resolved to be calm about my dispossession, to keep my mind on the goal I had given myself.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River

He would be dispossessed, of me and of himself.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
This was more than they had ever expected from the town that only a few months before saw them as the dispossessed.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
Jan Hinckart was dispossessed by Farnese, and Leonard I, the Thurn and Taxis Grand Master, reinstated.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
Or putting dispossesses under the door because you never actually see him.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Restless Amata lay, her swelling breast Fir'd with disdain for Turnus dispossess'd, And the new nuptials of the Trojan guest.
Virgil -- The Aeneid
Will you do as I ask, or will you dispossess me and lead the Varden yourself?
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
They walked slowly toward the gibbet, and the birds took indignant wing, cawing and circling like a mob of angry dispossessed peasants.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
After all, they were needy and hungry and despised and dispossessed, and sinners the world over were in the driver's seat.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The organization dispossesses him for the landlord.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Why does my blood thus muster to my heart, Making both it unable for itself And dispossessing all the other parts Of necessary fitness?
William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure

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