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How to pronounce dispossess in English?

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Type Words
Type of deprive, divest, strip
Derivation dispossession

Examples of dispossess

dispossess
Two great passes for Hernandez and now super work at the back to dispossess Kalou.
From the telegraph.co.uk
He dallied on the ball and allowed Micah Richards to dispossess him and score.
From the express.co.uk
Deck anyone who disagrees with this policy, and dispossess them of their memories.
From the independent.co.uk
His first action was to dispossess Nacer Barazite, with consummate ease.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
He slid in to try to dispossess the Peruvian and shipped a shin in the ribs for his troubles.
From the guardian.co.uk
So Barcelona try to dispossess him before he can give the ball to a better-placed teammate.
From the keepingscore.blogs.time.com
Seconds later it takes a sharp tackle from Kusnir to dispossess Cole.
From the guardian.co.uk
Captain Bede sent a great pass through to Burrows, and it took two defenders to dispossess him.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
Clearly your linkage of old books and artifacts to dispossess others of land is extremely absurd.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Deprive of the possession of real estate
  • (dispossessed) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
  • (dispossession) eviction: the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
  • (dispossession) exorcism: freeing from evil spirits
  • Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord. Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms. ...
  • The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness (the Hainish Cycle). ...
  • (dispossessed) homeless; impoverished
  • (dispossession) The act of dispossessing
  • (Dispossessed) had the ball taken away by a defender.