🏚️dispossess

verb
/ˌdɪspəˈzɛs/

Meaning

to deprive someone of land, property, or other possessions

Example Sentences

The new law threatened to dispossess many farmers of their land.

Synonyms

deprive, divest, strip, oust, evict

Antonyms

endow, enrich, grant

Collocations

dispossess someone, dispossess farmers, dispossess of property, dispossess of rights

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