verb
- depriving someone of land, property, or possessions
Usage: present participle of dispossess
Examples
- The landlord is dispossessing the tenants for non-payment of rent.
- Colonial powers were dispossessing indigenous peoples of their ancestral lands.
- The bank began dispossessing homeowners who defaulted on their mortgages.
- Legal proceedings for dispossessing squatters can take months.
- The government is dispossessing farmers to build the new highway.
- They accused the corporation of dispossessing local communities.