Thesaurus / dispossess
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Chilton’s sonorous voice carries with it the perseverance and anguish of the dispossessed, disenfranchised and violated.
BEST NEW AUDIOBOOKS TO LISTEN TO THIS MONTHKATHERINE A. POWERSOCTOBER 18, 2021WASHINGTON POSTYears brought wisdom, however; and he realized that to massacre or dispossess good cultivators was bad economy.
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAMBut I fancy that she will soon dispossess it of that character, for her suspiria are not many at this stage of her life.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOL 58, NO. 357, JULY 1845VARIOUSHow 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.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 15, SLICE 4VARIOUSOr 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 BLAIKIEDid 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. BERENSIt 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 IBEZIt 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 HOLMESI tried to dispossess you before I knew your worth and goodness, but I will do nothing now.
RAVENSHOEHENRY KINGSLEYWORDS RELATED TO DISPOSSESS
- be reduces
- becomes poorer
- bereaves
- capitulates
- consumes
- defaults
- depletes
- disinherits
- displaces
- dispossesses
- dissipates
- divests
- drains
- drops
- exhausts
- expends
- fails
- fails to keeps
- falls short
- forfeits
- forgets
- gives up
- is careless
- is impoverished
- lavishes
- misplaces
- misses
- misspends
- ousts
- passes up
- relinquishes
- robs
- sacrifices
- squanders
- suffers
- suffers loss
- surrenders
- uses up
- wastes
- yields
- 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
- abscond
- appropriate
- bereave
- break into
- burglarize
- burgle
- cheat
- con
- cop
- defalcate
- defraud
- despoil
- disinherit
- dispossess
- divest
- do out of
- embezzle
- filch
- heist
- hijack
- hold up
- hustle
- liberate
- lift
- loot
- lose
- mug
- oust
- peculate
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- plunder
- promote
- purloin
- raid
- ransack
- relieve
- requisition
- rifle
- rip off
- roll
- sack
- scrounge
- snitch
- stick up
- strip
- strong-arm
- swindle
- swipe
- take
- thieve
- withhold
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