DISPOSSESS, dis and possess. To put out of possession, by any means to deprive of the actual occupancy of a thing, particularly of land or real estate to deseize.
Ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein. Numbers 33 .
Usually followed by of, before the thing taken away as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
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