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How to pronounce dispossessed in English?

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Synonyms homeless, roofless

Examples of dispossessed

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Tom Waits is widely acknowledged as the poet par excellence of the dispossessed.
From the guardian.co.uk
Replays suggested the Broncos benchman was trying to off-load when dispossessed.
From the couriermail.com.au
Part, if not all, of this gain rightfully belongs to dispossessed shareholders.
From the washingtontimes.com
When people are dispossessed, a national literature can reside in a single voice.
From the theatlantic.com
In Chicago, on the other hand, the ranks of the dispossessed seem to be swelling.
From the nytimes.com
Was he an example of the unjustly dispossessed father we've read so much about?
From the independent.co.uk
After, Francis dedicated much of his homily to our treatment of the dispossessed.
From the independent.co.uk
Filipinos say they view the pontiff as a champion of the poor and dispossessed.
From the voanews.com
You must not allow yourselves be dispossessed as you were dispossessed in 1847.
From the en.wikipedia.org
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.