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In the countersuit she charged that the lenders were conspiring to dispossess her of her property.dispossess = take away possession of something
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Too many have been dispossessed of their heritage, and we have banded together in brotherhood so as to do something about it. (source)dispossessed = deprived (had something taken away from them)
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It felt oddly dispossessing, being handed this first legal proof of my personhood: until that moment, it had never occurred to me that proof was required.† (source)dispossessing = taking away something
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Hers too, was an ancient, age-old feat The fear of being dispossessed.† (source)dispossessed = people who are impoverished (poor--in any of different ways such as without physical or spiritual comforts, or without rights) OR deprived (had something taken away--such as land) OR took away
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As a member of the minority who still called themselves Palestinians, he and his family had lived in the slums of Tharsis, human testimony to the bitter legacy of the terminally dispossessed.† (source)
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Especially when we handed him the following typewritten rules and regulations for the Secret Annex (a van Daan production): PROSPECTUS AND GUIDE TO THE SECRET ANNEX A Unique Facility for the Temporary Accommodation of Jews and Other Dispossessed Persons Open all year round: Located in beautiful, quiet, wooded surroundings in the heart of Amsterdam.† (source)
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She goes on a nightlong excursion through the world of the outcasts and the dispossessed of San Francisco; enters her therapist's office to talk him out of his psychotic shooting rampage (the dangerous enclosure known in the study of traditional quest romances as "Chapel Perilous"); involves herself in what may be a centuries-old postal conspiracy 5) The real reason to go: did I mention that her name is Oedipa?† (source)dispossessed = people who are impoverished (poor--in any of different ways such as without physical or spiritual comforts, or without rights) OR deprived (had something taken away--such as land) OR took away
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A robbery would be a relief since it would dispossess my mind of the fear of something else.† (source)
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As far as Leila was concerned, the valley represented an act of colonial theft and dispossession.† (source)standard suffix: 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.
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Unquestionably, when it came to dividing, dismantling, dismembering, desolating, detaching, dispossessing, destroying, or dominating, Mama Elena was a pro.† (source)dispossessing = taking away something
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Or putting dispossesses under the door because you never actually see him.† (source)dispossesses = takes away something possessed
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Restless Amata lay, her swelling breast Fir'd with disdain for Turnus dispossess'd, And the new nuptials of the Trojan guest.† (source)
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Dispossessed, Pycelle had moved up next to Cersei, about as far from the dwarf as he could get without claiming the king's seat.† (source)Dispossessed = people who are impoverished (poor--in any of different ways such as without physical or spiritual comforts, or without rights) OR deprived (had something taken away--such as land) OR took away
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I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails that'll blow you out in the street!† (source)
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I had resolved to be calm about my dispossession, to keep my mind on the goal I had given myself.† (source)
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Because, Brother, the enemies of man are dispossessing the world!† (source)dispossessing = taking away something
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