MEANING
1. To deprive someone of property, possession, or a place held as their own.
2. To drive out a spirit believed to possess a person or place.
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Words that belong together
- dispossess a household
- dispossess of land
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The order dispossessed the household before the hearing.
She had been dispossessed of the land she still knew by every boundary.
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Word forms
- Base
- dispossess
- Past tense
- dispossessed
- Past participle
- dispossessed
- Present participle
- dispossessing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- dispossess
- Present continuous
- am/is/are dispossessing
- Present perfect
- have/has dispossessed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been dispossessing
- Past
- dispossessed
- Past continuous
- was/were dispossessing
- Past perfect
- had dispossessed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been dispossessing
- Future
- will dispossess
- Future continuous
- will be dispossessing
- Future perfect
- will have dispossessed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been dispossessing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: dispossess; dispossesses; dispossessed; dispossessed; dispossessing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: dispossesses.
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