English Synonym Finder

dispossess

Definitions

To deprive someone of land, property, or other possessions.

To rid someone of a belief, idea, or feeling.

Examples

The new government policy threatened to dispossess many small farmers of their ancestral lands.

The invaders sought to dispossess the local population of their homes and livelihoods.

Synonyms

evict oust deprive divest dislodge eject expropriate

Antonyms

restore repossess endow bestow grant provide supply