Synonyms of dispossessing

dispossessing

verb

present participle of dispossess

as in evicting

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

• evicting
• depriving
• stripping
• expropriating
• ousting
• divesting
• usurping
• disinheriting
• annexing
• appropriating
• deforcing
• impounding
• seizing
• disfurnishing
• bereaving
• commandeering
• taking over

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dispossessing

Mandi was in control of the ball, going nowhere fast, and there was little prospect of dispossessing him from Messi’s position. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 17 June 2026

How a state comes to control another land and its people, sometimes slowly dispossessing the natives of their lands, sometimes laying waste to them, sometimes committing genocide. — Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025