| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To bereave, deprive, divest, despoil or denude.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To oust or evict.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb dispossess.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dispossess) | 1. Deprive of the possession of real estate.[Wordnet]. 2. Expel or put out of the possession of real estate.[Wordnet]. 3. To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.[Websters]. 4. To evict.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Base verb from the following inflections: dispossessing, dispossessed, dispossesses, dispossessor, dispossessors, dispossessingly and dispossessedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DISPOSSESSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISPOSSESSING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Depriving of possession; disseizing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of dispossess. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
