dispossess
verb🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzes/
🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzes/
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dispossess | 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzes/ 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzes/ |
| he / she / it dispossesses | 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzesɪz/ 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzesɪz/ |
| past simple dispossessed | 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzest/ 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzest/ |
| past participle dispossessed | 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzest/ 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzest/ |
| -ing form dispossessing | 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzesɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌdɪspəˈzesɪŋ/ |
- dispossess somebody (of something)
to take somebody’s property, land or house away from them 剥夺，夺去（某人的财产、土地、房屋） Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Old French despossesser, from des- (expressing reversal) + possesser ‘possess’.