dispossess

dispossess of (something)

To take one's possession. A noun or pronoun can be used between "dispossess" and "of." If you don't pay your mortgage, you'll be dispossessed of your house before long.
See also: dispossess, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dispossess someone of something

to separate someone from a possession. Do you intend to dispossess us of our home? They were dispossessed of the only possessions they had.
See also: dispossess, of
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • dispossess of
  • dispossess of (something)
  • angle
  • angling
  • freshen up
  • not do (someone or oneself) any favors
  • involve with
  • involve with (someone or something)
  • involved with
  • arrange some music for
References in periodicals archive
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Le Guin's The Dispossessed (1974), further complicates the education of desire by placing its utopia in the context of ecological scarcity.
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They were not dispossessed"--should raise eyebrows.
Searching for Alex Kozinski
The North is no longer just dispossessed Aboriginals and transient workers and misplaced Francophones.
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In these difficult times, ZaatarDiva, both personal and grounded in world events, provides an empowering voice for the marginalized and dispossessed.
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On the one hand, social historians sought to recapture the lives and experiences of the working class and other dispossessed groups.
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Nelson's visit to the black village of Triolet in Mauritius provokes thoughts of African legacy and the lives of the dispossessed. She writes, "Without history, people stumble / around the grindstone in a deepening track," and "The hope of chattels in the barracoons / was that their seed would multiply and spread / around the earth: that even octoroons, / remembering chattels in the barracoons, / would feel sad wonder."
The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems
The figures sweetly derange any straightforward political program by invoking various others: They become hoboes representing those dispossessed by Operation Freedom as well as America's own homeless.
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Castro's nationalization of private property generated thousands of dispossessed claimants.
Grant for study of U.S.-Cuba claims
Meanwhile, the black poor--homeless, separated from loved ones, dispossessed, it seemed, from the face of the earth--shuffled from one ludicrous and inadequate sports stadium to another, or they took up living like carrion under bridges on interstate highways.
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They're concerned with the usual angst, exploration, and antics of the average dispossessed, but written very lucidly and with feeling.
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And I have to wonder: What in this religious woman, this spiritual mother and grandmother, this sister to the poor and dispossessed, was so threatening that someone had to execute her?
No greater love: the death of a nun and activist reminds us that the gospel is a cause worth living for
The people they met unknowingly challenged them to try to make a difference to the dispossessed and poverty-stricken in their world.
Granado, Alberto. Traveling with Che Guevara; the making of a revolutionary