Dispossess is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISPOSSESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to put out of possession or occupancy
• deprive (someone) of land, property, or other possessions
• (in sport) deprive (a player) of the ball
• 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.
• deprive of the possession of real estate

Words related to DISPOSSESS

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How to use DISPOSSESS in a sentence

• Their uncle, Charles the Bald, attempts to dispossess them, but is defeated by Louis at Andernach.
• Therefore, take thou thine own again, nor will I dispossess thee today of so much as one farthing.
• Truly the Lord hath done great things for us, by rescuing us from the power of a numerous foe, who boasted that they would conquer and dispossess us.
• She had known that Squire Davenport had the right to dispossess her, but had not supposed he would do so as long as she paid the interest regularly.
• Also he had definite ideas of reprisal, which were focused by a dispossess notice, and directed particularly upon the person and property of his landlord.
• He was well aware how much I prized my refuge by the side of my old aunt, and he determined to dispossess me of it.
• The company resisted their groundless claims, whereupon they proceeded to destroy some of its buildings and attempted violently to dispossess it.
• The juries of Mayo, Sligo, and Roscommon were overawed into submission, but the Galway jury were obstinate, and refused to dispossess the proprietors.
• Any member of a family, by simply turning Protestant, could dispossess the rest of that family of the bulk of the estate to his own advantage.
• Wayne should have been ordered to use the sword, and to dispossess the Spaniards from the east bank of the Mississippi.
• They came with their flocks and herds, their wives and their children, their school books and their Bibles, seeking not to dispossess or rob the occupants of the land.
• They are increasing rapidly in numbers, and Holroyd at least is firmly convinced that they will finally dispossess man over the whole of tropical South America.
• It could dispossess the peasant, and either turn his property into a state farm, convey it to another owner, or make the peasant a state slave.
• Nor will it be necessary to dispossess others to occupy it.
• It was as being braver, simpler, and so stronger than the Assyrians that the Medes were able to dispossess them of their sovereignty over western Asia.
• Of course, I shall do my level best to acquire the legal right to dispossess you before Mr.
• Parker acquires a similar right to dispossess me, but, in the interim, I announce an armistice.
• Little Mary insisted on having Bridget to sleep with herself instead of her sister Melinda, whom she wanted to dispossess.
• The Saxons were not strong enough to dispossess them of their fastness.
• Other stations of honor and usefulness may be opened to her, but this is the realm of which nothing can dispossess her.
• Ruth looked distressed as her father glanced over the dispossess notice, for such it was.
• And those who wish to make her ashamed of this charming temper, and seek to dispossess her of it, will, it is to be feared, give her nothing better in exchange.
• To defend the King they were obliged to dispossess him.
• The chamber was full of godly ministers, who would not let her send for a doctor, saying the case was in their way, and that they would dispossess him.
• Unprovoked wars of extermination were begun to dispossess these children of Nature of the very breasts of their mother, which had sustained them so long and so peacefully.
• In two years they became masters of what it took seven centuries to dispossess them.
• It will require ten years to dispossess those who have seized upon the government, since the last revolution.
• It will, therefore, be difficult to dispossess them.
• He sent the town authorities to dispossess them, but without result.
• We will defend you against robbers if these would seek to dispossess you of your cave, Eleakim cried.
• In vain I petitioned the emperor to dispossess this traitorous baron of my lands, which by all the laws of Christendom should have been respected during my absence.
• I regret the necessity of presenting arguments to dispossess Mr.

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