Dispossessed [verb]

Definition of Dispossessed:

deprive

Synonyms of Dispossessed:


Opposite/Antonyms of Dispossessed:

Take in

Give

Keep


Sentence/Example of Dispossessed:

The advancing sand gradually crept into the hamlet, and in the course of a decade dispossessed the people by burying their houses.

But the Boers advanced, the natives were dispossessed of their lands, and missionaries were expelled from their regions.

Among them was Eucher with the handsome Yolande, dispossessed of her father's heritage by the seigneur of Plouernel.

In that struggle Thyrsis saw clearly that his place was in the ranks of the disinherited and dispossessed.

She was afterwards dispossessed, but the government remained in the hands of the descendants of her family.

"He got in for that while he was dispossessed," smiled Southend.

The high-priests of Amon at Thebes usurped their power, and finally dispossessed the last of them of the throne.

The aborigines were dispossessed, treated as conquered peoples, and forced to do the exploiting labour.

On lifting up the right arm, we found that it was dispossessed of its hand.

Germany will directly compensate its nationals who may have been dispossessed by the aforesaid liquidations.