Definition of dispossess

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Dispossess (v. t.) 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..

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Ejector :: Ejector (n.) One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses..
Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity..
Dispossess :: Dispossess (v. t.) 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 :: Usurp (v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him..
Evict :: Evict (v. t.) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
Dispossession :: Dispossession (n.) The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.
Dispossessor :: Dispossessor (n.) One who dispossesses.
Outer :: Outer (v.) One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession..
Ouster :: Ouster (n.) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin.
Eviction :: Eviction (n.) The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster..
Dispossessing :: Dispossessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disposses.
Disproperty :: Disproperty (v. t.) To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of.
Disinherit :: Disinherit (v. t.) To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.
Disseizin :: Disseizin (n.) The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold.
Deprive :: Deprive (v. t.) To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical..
Ejection :: Ejection (n.) The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
Evirate :: Evirate (v. t.) To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.
Deprive :: Deprive (v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of..
Dispossession :: Dispossession (n.) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster..
Disseize :: Disseize (v. t.) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold..
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