Dispossess (Verb)
Meaning
Deprive of the possession of real estate.
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The government plans to dispossess the local residents of their ancestral lands to make way for a new development project.
- After failing to pay the mortgage for years, the family risked being dispossessed of their home by the bank.
- In a surprise move, the city council voted to dispossess a group of low-income families of the homes they had lived in for generations.
- Taxes levied on the rural property went unpaid for many years, gradually threatening to dispossess the farmer of his family's ancestral farm.
- According to the order issued by the court, the wealthy investor was going to be dispossessed of the buildings due to non-compliance with zoning regulations.