Thesaurus / dispossess
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Years brought wisdom, however; and he realized that to massacre or dispossess good cultivators was bad economy.
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAM
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!
HISTORY OF JULIUS CAESAR VOL. 1 OF 2NAPOLEON III, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, 1808-1873.
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.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE BOOK OF JOSHUAWILLIAM GARDEN BLAIKIE
Did not William the Conqueror dispossess the English, and thus cause them to be servants to him?
THE DIGGER MOVEMENT IN THE DAYS OF THE COMMONWEALTHLEWIS H. BERENS
It was said that perhaps the Emperor, in order to break her will, would dispossess her of her vast estates in Siberia.
THE ENEMIES OF WOMENVICENTE BLASCO IBEZ
It takes an interminably long time to dispossess a lad of six halfpence at this game; fortune is not so fickle as may be supposed.
LONDON'S UNDERWORLDTHOMAS HOLMES
I tried to dispossess you before I knew your worth and goodness, but I will do nothing now.
RAVENSHOEHENRY KINGSLEY
We will accept the issue and dispossess them and put our friends in possession.
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION IN ALABAMAWALTER L. FLEMING
WORDS RELATED TO DISPOSSESS
- be careless
- be impoverished
- be reduced
- become poorer
- bereave
- capitulate
- consume
- default
- deplete
- disinherit
- displace
- dispossess
- dissipate
- divest
- drain
- drop
- exhaust
- expend
- fail
- fail to keep
- fall short
- forfeit
- forget
- give up
- lavish
- misplace
- miss
- misspend
- oust
- pass up
- relinquish
- rob
- sacrifice
- squander
- suffer
- suffer loss
- surrender
- use up
- waste
- yield
- be careless
- be impoverished
- be reduced
- become poorer
- bereave
- capitulate
- consume
- default
- deplete
- disinherit
- displace
- dispossess
- dissipate
- divest
- drain
- drop
- exhaust
- expend
- fail
- fail to keep
- fall short
- forfeit
- forget
- give up
- lavish
- misplace
- miss
- misspend
- oust
- pass up
- relinquish
- rob
- sacrifice
- squander
- suffer
- suffer loss
- surrender
- use up
- waste
- yield
- banish
- bereave
- boot out
- bounce
- bundle off
- cast out
- chase
- depose
- deprive
- dethrone
- discharge
- disinherit
- dislodge
- displace
- dispossess
- divest
- drive out
- eject
- evict
- expulse
- fire
- force out
- give the 1-2-3
- kick out
- lay off
- let go
- lose
- ostracize
- pack off
- pink slip
- relegate
- remove
- rob
- sack
- send packing
- show the door
- throw out
- topple
- transport
- turn out
- unseat
- banish
- bereave
- boot out
- bounce
- bundle off
- cast out
- chase
- depose
- deprive
- dethrone
- discharge
- disinherit
- dislodge
- displace
- dispossess
- divest
- drive out
- eject
- evict
- expulse
- fire
- force out
- give the 1-2-3
- kick out
- lay off
- let go
- lose
- ostracize
- pack off
- pink slip
- relegate
- remove
- rob
- sack
- send packing
- show the door
- throw out
- topple
- transport
- turn out
- unseat
- banish
- bereave
- boot out
- bounce
- bundle off
- cast out
- chase
- depose
- deprive
- dethrone
- discharge
- disinherit
- dislodge
- displace
- dispossess
- divest
- drive out
- eject
- evict
- expulse
- fire
- force out
- give the 1-2-3
- kick out
- lay off
- let go
- lose
- ostracize
- pack off
- pink slip
- relegate
- remove
- rob
- sack
- send packing
- show the door
- throw out
- topple
- transport
- turn out
- unseat
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