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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dispossess \Dis`pos*sess"\ (?; see {Possess}), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. {Dispossessed}; p. pr & vb n. {Dispossessing}.] [Pref.
dis- + possess: cf F. d['e]poss['e]der.]
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy
of particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to
eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away
as to dispossess a king of his crown.
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. --Goldsmith.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dispossess
v : take away all material possessions from someone [syn: {deprive},
{strip}, {divest}]
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