dispossess
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dispossess
- /dɪspəˈzəs/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French despossesser. Equivalent to dis- + possess.
verb dispossesses · dispossessing · 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, […]
- 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.
