Synonyms of dispossess

dispossess

verb

ˌdis-pə-ˈzes 

as in to evict

to end the occupancy or possession of

opponents of gentrification claim that the process unfairly dispossesses poorer residents of their long-established homes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• evict
• deprive
• expropriate
• oust
• divest
• strip
• disinherit
• usurp
• seize
• impound
• bereave
• deforce
• annex
• disfurnish
• appropriate
• commandeer
• take over

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dispossess

But in the next 30 years, the people who will bear the brunt of that catastrophe—who will be dispossessed, uprooted, and exposed to the worst of the elements—will be those who are already on the other side of society’s walls. —Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025

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, 20 Oct. 2025

As with the enclosures in England and Scotland, villagers were uprooted and dispossessed to make way for sheep and cattle. —Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025