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dispossess

verb as in deprive

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Chilton’s sonorous voice carries with it the perseverance and anguish of the dispossessed, disenfranchised and violated.

Don Draper never seems to entirely dispossess himself of Dick Whitman.

Years brought wisdom, however; and he realized that to massacre or dispossess good cultivators was bad economy.

But I fancy that she will soon dispossess it of that character, for her suspiria are not many at this stage of her life.

How many seek means, of whatever kind, to dispossess themselves of them!

The Hellenizers still enjoyed the royal favour and Jonathan made no attempt to dispossess them.

Or they might have said that the nine tribes and a half could furnish quite a large enough army to dispossess the Canaanites.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dispossess, such as: evict, appropriate, eject, expel, expropriate, and oust.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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