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dispossess - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Verb

dispossess (third-person singular simple present dispossesses, present participle dispossessing, simple past and past participle dispossessed)

• To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
• To deprive someone of possession in general.
  • ✤ Though Mars himſelfe the angry God of armes,
    And all the earthly Potentates conſpire,
    To diſpoſſeſſe me of this Diadem:
    Yet wil I weare it in deſpight of them
    As great commander of this Eaſtearne world, […]¹
• (sports) To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone).
  • ✤ It was Bannan who released Agbonlahor for his goal with a long-range curling pass after Stephen Warnock had dispossessed Mohamed Diame.²

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French despossesser. Equivalent to dis- +‎ possess.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪspəˈzəs/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act, scene vii: ↩

2. 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

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