deforced

past tense of deforce

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for deforced
Verb
  • The result is that many residents who are evicted lose their home.
    Cassie Powell, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Prince Andrew ⬆ Stripped of titles, evicted from his mansion, becomes Andrew Mountbatten Windsor—yet King Charles pays his rent at Sandringham for life.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For me, the flashback is suggestive but not conclusive — maybe Arthur’s genuinely confused about the identity of the man in his house, or maybe this is his chance at revenge against the white men who have continually dispossessed his family and his people.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Like Dunbar’s speakers, Hughes’s dispossessed have no way out, and the poem implicitly refutes optimism regarding the Great Migration and racial progress.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Deforced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deforced. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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